The star railgun concept

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 432-436

  Ian, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

augmented; coils; magnetic; railgun

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PROJECTILES; VELOCITY;

GUN BARREL; MAGNET COILS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0032674838     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.738446     Document Type: Article

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