The maximum possible values of adhesion and cohesion are calculated for a number of powder materials, substrate materials, sizes of installation barrels, and compositions of explosive gas mixtures. These data give a clear idea about the areas of applicability of gaseous detonation spraying.The process of gaseous detonation spraying implies that an explosive mixture is injected through a gas mixer into a tube (barrel) closed on one end, a portion of the powder is fed into the barrel, and then detonation is initiated near the closed end of the barrel. The flow of detonation products expanding from the barrel accelerates and heats the powder particles. Leaving the barrel, the powder particles hit a target (substrate) and form a coating. The general concept of the current status of this technology can be found in the review [1].The main advantage of gaseous detonation spraying is the possibility of obtaining coatings from a wide range of powder materials (metals, alloys, carbides, oxides, and composites), the absence of porosity (less that 1%) in coatings, and significantly higher adhesion and cohesion as compared with coatings obtained by other methods. Owing to the pulse character of spraying, there are no problems with cooling of the barrel and with cooling, warping, or thermal damages of treated parts.In all gas-thermal methods of spraying, coating formation is determined by diffusion processes where the main role belongs to particle velocity and temperature, which energetically complement each other. A detonation coating is formed by elementary acts of interaction of high-velocity melted or partly melted particles with a cold surface of the substrate.The pressure behind the detonation-wave front reaches tens of atmospheres, and the temperature can be as high as several thousand degrees, which allows accelerating powder particles up to several hundred meters per seconds and heating the particles up to the melting point and above.A melted or partly melted particle moving with a velocity greater than 100 m/sec spreads over the substrate surface and forms a cumulative jet, which cleans the substrate surface and ensures good contact (at a molecular level) between the particle and the substrate. A certain part of the substrate surface experiences microscopic plastic deformation upon the impact. Adhesion and cohesion depend on the relative area of the contact surface where interdiffusion occurs to a depth of several interatomic distances during particle cooling on the substrate surface.Ledges of the substrate-surface roughness are under privileged conditions, because they are surrounded by the hot particles to a greater extent and, therefore, are heated to a higher temperature.Particles that are not melted at all do not usually form a coating. Particle overheating has also an adverse effect. Completely melted particles can splash at the impact onto the substrate or spread widely over the substrate surface, which is hazardous from the viewpoint of crack formation in the coating. Being accelerated, melted particles can b...