Weapons of the Navy Seals

by Kevin Dockery

Overview

This painstakingly researched volume covers the armament and ammunition that have served the SEALs, tracing each weapon from the development stage to its current form. Also included are exclusive accounts from those who first witnessed these weapons in action. Written with the cooperation of the UDT/SEAL Museum Association in Florida, and packed with detailed information and photos, this book offers fresh insight into the technology that has for decades sustained the Navy SEALs as an unstoppable military force-and continues to make them the most dangerous warriors in the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425205150
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/01/2005
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.13(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Kevin Dockery has been a soldier in the President's Guard under Presidents Nixon and Ford, a grade-school teacher, radio broadcaster, gunsmith, and historian. He even spent time in Iraq and Kuwait during Desert Storm as what he refers to as a “corporate mercenary.” As a noted military historian, he has written a number of books on the history of the Navy SEALs and the lives of the men who lived that history. He is the author of Weapons of the Navy SEALs, Future Weapons, Stalkers and Shooters, Operation Thunderhead, and the Navy SEALs Oral History series.

Table of Contents

1	Death in the Dark	1
2	Knives	7
	Knife Data	25
3	Pistols	37
	Pistol Data	69
4	Submachine Guns on the Peninsula	81
5	Submachine Guns	89
	Submachine Guns Data	126
6	Shotguns	135
	Shotgun Data	152
7	Rifles and Carbines	159
	Rifle and Carbine Data	195
8	Knock, Knock	205
9	Hand Grenades	211
	Hand Grenade Data	235
10	Ambush in the Delta	247
11	Machine Guns	257
	Machine Gun Data	337
12	Shots in the Sandbox	357
13	Forty-Millimeter Grenade Launchers	367
	Forty-Millimeter Grenade Launcher Data	397
	Forty-Millimeter Ammunition	405
14	Explosions in the Philippines	425
15	Explosives and Explosive Devices	433
	Explosives and Explosive Devices Data	488
	Index	519