Effect of railgun electrodynamics on projectile launch dynamics

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 118-123

  Zielinski, Alexander E ^a   Weinacht, Paul ^a   Zielinski, A ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Armature discard; Electrodynamics; Launch dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; BALLISTICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS; PROJECTILES; TARGETS;

ARMATURE DISCARD; PROJECTILE LAUNCH DYNAMICS; RAILGUN ELECTRODYNAMICS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0032626497     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.738388     Document Type: Article

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