Brassey S Infantry Weapons Of The World 1975

Includes material on pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, submachine carbines, rifles, carbines, machine guns, mortars, missiles, rockets, grenades, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, mines, bayonets, intruder alarms, mine detectors, optical devices, pyrotechnics, and radar. Also in, glossary, abbreviations. Also includes glossary, abbreviations, table of armies and their infantry weapons, index of manufacturers' addresses, and index of weapons.

This book, first published in 1978, analyses the development, uses and effects of conventional anti-personnel weapons such as rifles and machine guns, grenades, bombs, shells and mines. It provides the historical, military, technical and clinical background to the international legal discussions as part of the ongoing efforts to prohibit or restrict the uses of some of the more inhumane and indiscriminate of these weapons, the most successful being the 1997 Ottawa Treaty that banned the use of anti-personnel mines.