"This book is intended as a Manual for Antiaircraft Artillery Schools and can also be used by Officers serving in Antiaircraft Artillery Units for independent study. In it are expounded basic problems of fire, dealing with firing at any given target, and also general problems of Antiaircraft Artillery fire, showing the specific methods of solving tasks of such fire; further basic principles of Ballistics, where special features, peculiar to AA Artillery fire, are taken into consideration and, finally, some notions of Mathematics."--Page 1.

Caption title. Original resource publication info: "Military publication of the Ministry of Armed Forces of the U.S.S.R., Moscow, 1947"--Page 1. "The authors of this book are: Colonel A. A. GRODZINSKY (chapters I & II) and Major-General V. A. ALEKSEYEV (Chapters II and Addendum I), lecturers of the Chair of AA Artillery Fire in the DZERDJINSKY Artillery Academy of the Orders of Lenin and Suvorov."--Page 1. Other books in the Course of A.A. artillery fire series: Book 2: Law of probability, law of errors, dispersion, action of shells, meteorological service. Book 3: Firing of AA artillery at aerial and ground targets. Book 4: Firing of small-calibre A.A. artillery.

Chapter IGeneral information on firing -- Fire task -- Fire instructions -- Solution of fire tasks (phases of fire) -- Basic artillery terminology -- Artillery methods of angle measurement -- Directions and angles on a locality and on a map -- Use of basic observing and angle-measuring instruments -- Measurement of distances on the ground -- Measurement of distance by a map -- Laying and registration of guns -- Troop cone/fan fire and its composition -- Chapter II General information on AA artillery fire -- Basic terminology relevant to AA fire -- Brief characteristics of air targets -- AA tasks -- Principles of solution of AA tasks relating to air targets -- General plan of preparation of fire -- The co-ordinates of the position of an air target -- Parameters of movement of an air target -- Hypothesis of movement of a target -- General example of extrapolation -- Determination of point of fire -- Interception tasks. Methods and means of solution -- Allowance/prediction of route of target and its modifications -- Laying of AA guns -- Comparison of angles of speed of aircraft and guns -- Orienting guns and instruments -- Levelling guns and instruments; effect of a tilted platform on laying -- Chapter III Principles of exterior ballistics -- Movement of shell in a vacuum -- Movement of shell in air. Air resistance -- Characteristics of trajectory of shell in air -- Beam of trajectories -- AA gun zones -- Rotation of shell -- Influence of ballistic and meteorological conditions on the position of burst -- Tables of firing -- Appendices Some questions of analytical geometry, differential and integral calculus.