Electric energy gun technology: status of the French-german-netherlands programme

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 25-30

  Kolkert, Willem J ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY STORAGE; PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMA JETS; PROJECTILES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

ELECTRIC ENERGY GUN; HYPERVELOCITY PROJECTILES; PULSE FORMING NETWORKS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0032636137     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.738370     Document Type: Article

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