Integrated launch package performance in the cannon-caliber launcher

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1 PART 1, 1997, Pages 163-168

  Zielinski, Alexander E ^a   Soencksen, Keith ^a   Webb, David W ^a   Weinacht, Paul ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BALLISTICS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MILITARY APPLICATIONS;

CANNON CALIBER ELECTROMAGNETIC GUN (CCEMG) PROGRAM; INTEGRATED LAUNCH PACKAGE (ILP);

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 0030644031     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.559936     Document Type: Article

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