Effect of railgun electrodynamics on armature discard

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 112-117

  Zielinski, Alexander E ^a   Weinacht, Paul ^a   Powell, John D ^a   Zielinski, A ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Armature discard; Electrodynamics; Launch dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; VELOCITY;

ARMATURE DISCARD; LAUNCH DYNAMICS; RAILGUN ELECTRODYNAMICS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0032629591     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.738387     Document Type: Article

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