Design and Testing of Integrated Metal Armature Sabots for Launch of Armor Penetrating Projectiles from Electric Guns

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 219-224

  Price, J H ^a   Yun, H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; ELECTRIC DRIVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS; PROJECTILES; TARGETS; VELOCITY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC RAILGUNS; INTEGRATED METAL ARMATURE SABOTS; LARGE CALIBER HYPERVELOCITY SUBPROJECTILES; MID BODY DRIVE;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0029230033     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.364698     Document Type: Article

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