The Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) was a United States Navy organization, which was responsible for the procurement, storage, and deployment of all naval...
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Lewis Strauss (category Jewish American members of the Cabinet of the United States)
rose to the rank of rear admiral due to his work in the Bureau of Ordnance in managing and rewarding plants engaged in production of munitions. As a founding...
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Mark 14 torpedo (category Torpedoes of the United States)
the war, the Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) stopped producing Mark 10s for the S-boats and provided a shortened Mark 14. Torpedoes consist of several subsystems...
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of a series of designs on 2 June 1938. However, the Bureau of Ordnance continued working on the turret with the larger barbette, while the Bureau of Construction...
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John A. Dahlgren (category American people of Swedish descent)
Dahlgren was made commander of the Washington Navy Yard, where he established the Bureau of Ordnance. In 1863, he took command of the South Atlantic Blockading...
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Proximity fuze (category Military projects of the United States)
Bureau of Ordnance (15 May 1946). VT Fuzes For Projectiles and Spin-Stabilized Rockets. Ordnance Pamphlet. Vol. 1480. U. S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance....
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ASM-N-2 Bat (category World War II aerial bombs of the United States)
National Bureau of Standards (which unit later became a part of the Army Research Laboratory) with assistance from the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance, the Massachusetts...
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and support of naval aircraft and related systems. Aerial weapons, however, were under the cognizance of the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd). The USN's...
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1.1-inch/75-caliber gun (category Anti-aircraft guns of the United States)
II, USN Bureau of Ordnance, Gun and Mounts, Chapter IV. Rowland and Boyd, U. S. NAVY BUREAU OF ORDNANCE IN WORLD WAR II, USN Bureau of Ordnance, p220....
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Oerlikon 20 mm cannon (category Anti-aircraft guns of the Cold War)
States and their Allies, of Full Automatic Machine Gun Systems and High Rate of Fire Power Driven Cannon, vol. III, Bureau of Ordnance Chinn, George M. (1987)...
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determination of promotions. Captain William F. Lynch was Chief of the Bureau in 1862 and Captain French Forrest in 1862 to 1863. The Bureau was led by Commander...
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January 19, 2012 US Explosive Ordnance; Ordnance Pamphlet OP 1664. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C.: Navy Department, Bureau of Ordnance. May 28, 1947. pp. 3–4. OP...
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Japanese 53 cm torpedo (category Torpedoes of Japan)
of the Navy (20 April 1945). OP-1507 Japanese Underwater Ordnance. Bureau of Ordnance. p. 36. Bureau of Ordnance ORD-ONI 9. "A Statistical Summary of...
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16-inch/50-caliber Mark 7 gun (category Naval guns of the United States)
battleship. Due to a lack of communication during design in 1938, the Bureau of Ordnance assumed the Iowa class would use the 16-inch (406 mm)/50 Mark 2 guns...
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included the: Bureau of Yards and Docks; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing; Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd); Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting; Bureau of Construction...
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BOAR (redirect from Bureau of Ordnance Aircraft Rocket)
The Bombardment Aircraft Rocket, also known as BOAR, the Bureau of Ordnance Aircraft Rocket, and officially as the 30.5-Inch Rocket, Mark 1, Mod 0, was...
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Joseph Strauss (admiral) (category Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George)
Bureau of Ordnance. He established the Naval Proving Ground at Indian Head, Maryland, from 1900 to 1902; served on a Special Board of Naval Ordnance in...
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Mark 13 torpedo (category Torpedoes of the United States)
complications that were attending the other phases of torpedo development, the Bureau of Ordnance considered the aircraft torpedo problem so important...
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North Carolina-class battleship (category World War II battleships of the United States)
Treaty and reaffirmed in the Second London Naval Treaty. When the Bureau of Ordnance introduced a "super-heavy" 16-inch shell, the ships were redesigned...
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QF 2-pounder naval gun (category World War I artillery of the United Kingdom)
Weapons of WW2, P72 Rowland and Boyd, U. S. NAVY BUREAU OF ORDNANCE IN WORLD WAR II, USN Bureau of Ordnance, p223-224. Campbell, Naval Weapons of WW2, p...
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Ralph Earle (American naval officer) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
during the Spanish–American War and World War I. He was the Chief, Bureau of Ordnance (BUORD) and retired as a rear admiral in 1927. Earle was born on May...
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Department, Bureau of Ordnance (1970). NAVORD OP 1665 British Explosive Ordnance 1946 (Changed 1 June 1970). p. 387. Navy Department, Bureau of Ordnance (1970)...
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Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division (category Systems command installations of the United States Navy)
established in 1941 under the Bureau of Ordnance as the Naval Ammunition Depot for the production, testing, and storage of ordnance under the first supplemental...
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Remington–Keene rifle (category Bolt-action rifles of the United States)
design in favor of the Winchester-Hotchkiss, Remington commenced production and offered the rifle to the United States Navy Bureau of Ordnance. The Navy purchased...
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and Development of Manual, Automatic and Airborne Repeating Weapons. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C., US: Bureau of Ordnance, Department of the United States...
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William D. Leahy (category Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
member of his cadet class to reach flag rank, as the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance from 1927 to 1931. He subsequently served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation...
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William Sterling Parsons (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
liaison officer between the Bureau of Ordnance and the Naval Research Laboratory. He became interested in radar and was one of the first to recognize its...
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Ordnance Research Calculator (NORC) was a one-of-a-kind first-generation (vacuum tube) computer built by IBM for the United States Navy's Bureau of Ordnance...
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Degaussing (section Types of degaussers)
Boyd, Wiliam B. (1953). U. S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Ordnance, Dept. of the Navy. p. 84. OCLC 7833847. PBS...
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Pelican (bomb) (category Anti-ship missiles of the United States)
use by the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ordnance; one led to the active radar-guided Bat, which saw operational service near the end of the war, while the other...
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