Fire Mission Battery!

A Podcast history of artillery. From Chinese fire lances to modern self propelled pieces.

Episode 7: Definitions - Mountain Artillery 07/03/2023

Episode 7: Definitions - Mountain Artillery Links email: Website: Episode 7: /episode/index/show/firemission/id/27354135

Episode 6: Definitions~ Mortars 06/03/2022

Episode 6: Definitions~ Mortars Links email: Website: Episode 6 Famous Military Weapons: Mortars Minenwerfer /episode/index/show/firemission/id/23536505

Episode 5: Crecy to Constantinople ~ Part 3 05/03/2022

Episode 5: Crecy to Constantinople ~ Part 3 Links email: Website: Transcript: episode 5 Gunpowder artillery in the Middle Ages Transfer of Military and Naval Technology 1325–1650 by Douglas Carl Peifer /episode/index/show/firemission/id/23188928

Episode 4: Crecy to Constantinople ~ Part 2 03/03/2022

Episode 4: Crecy to Constantinople ~ Part 2 Links email: Website: Episode 4 Siege of Calais How were mediaeval guns loaded and fired? /episode/index/show/firemission/id/22434992

Episode 3: Crecy to Constantinople ~ Part 1 02/04/2022

Episode 3: Crecy to Constantinople ~ Part 1 This month begins the European history of artillery from the Battle of Crecy to the Fall of Constantinople. A 107 year period of great change in the development of gunnery. Transcipt and pics at: The Website is: Contact: Links: (2000). . . p. 102. . Centre Historique Crecy La Bataille /episode/index/show/firemission/id/22160216

Gunnery Travels Westward! 01/04/2022

Gunnery Travels Westward! Links The Website is: Contact: Norris, John (2003). Early Gunpowder Artillery: 1300–1600. Marlborough: The Crowood Press. p. 11. . Kelly, Jack (2004). "Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, & Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World". Basic Books. . Konungs skuggsjá Bottomley, Frank (1983). . Crown Publishers. . /episode/index/show/firemission/id/21670295

St Barbara’s Day and Early Chinese Developments 12/03/2021

St Barbara’s Day and Early Chinese Developments LINKS The Website is: Contact: Andrade, Tonio (2016), The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History, Princeton University Press, (1986), Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 7, Military Technology: The Gunpowder Epic, Cambridge University Press, /episode/index/show/firemission/id/21332879

Fire Mission Battery! 11/23/2021

Fire Mission Battery! Welcome to the new podcast: "Fire Mission Battery!" This is the trailer episode with the first full episode hitting the feed on 4 December 2021. The Website is: Contact: /episode/index/show/firemission/id/21256556

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