Scientific bulletin ISSUES OF ARMAMENT TECHNOLOGY – ISSN No 1230-3001 has been published by the Military Institute of Armament Technology since 1960. IAT bulletin is a forum for presentation original results of scientific research and development work on armament technology covering such domains as the design and use of machines, electronics, electro-technique, IT, mechanics, automatics, robotics, material engineering, chemical technology, techniques of navigation and some issues of mathematics, physics and chemistry. The bulletin deals with wide aspects of scientific, technical, technological and service issues in following categories:
- Gunnery
- Small arms
- Missiles and rockets
- Radar and rocket systems
- Explosive ordnance
- Material engineering
- Dynamic tests of weapon systems
- Training & practising systems of weapon systems
- Command systems
- The use of weapon systems
- Modelling technical – logistic – organisation processes
- Quality assurance management for armament systems and ordnance inventories
- Issues of providing secure infrastructure and defence against terrorism.
The scientific bulletin ‘Issues of Armament Technology’ is indexed in the data base ‘The Polish Technical Magazines’ BazTech (http://baztech.icm.edu.pl) and Index Copernicus Journal Master List.
Paper reviewing procedure
Authors agree the papers sent to be published in bulletin Issues of Armament Technology become subject of reviewing procedure. In the first step the papers are evaluated by the editorial team and then by at least two reviewers. The reviewers are selected by the editorial team secretary after consultancies with the subject editors. Selection of reviewers is in line with the rule that they have to be independent and objective specialists possessing comprehensive knowledge on the paper’s subject. The papers are reviewed by keeping the mutual anonymousness of authors and reviewers. A preferred way of review is included in a review form that is supplied by the reviewer to editors. The reviewers are bound not to use the knowledge about the reviewed paper before its publishing.
The main author is informed about the results of the review without the reviewer’s personal information. The papers with positive reviews are designated for publishing. In the case there are comments of reviewers resulting in a necessity of changes the correspondence with the author is secured by editors. It is possible to prepare a new review if introduced changes are extensive or to call a new reviewer. The final qualification for publishing is made by the editor-in-chief.
The editor-in-chief may refuse the publishing of a paper if:
- The paper obtained negative reviews
- The author refuses to make amendments proposed by a reviewer or the editor
- The paper’s subject is not in line with bulletin Issues of Armament Technology
- The text submitted to editors does not meet technical requirements for the paper included in guidelines for the authors
- The paper has been already published
- Text of the paper contravenes the binding legal regulations (protection of classified information, authorship rights, etc.).