On the design of a coilgun as a rapid-fire grenade launcher

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 148-153

  Liao, M ^a   Zabar, Z ^a   Czarkowski, D ^a   Levi, E ^a   Birenbaum, L ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPULSION; MILITARY VEHICLES; PROJECTILES; VELOCITY;

ARMORED VEHICLES; COILGUN; RAPID FIRE GRENADE LAUNCHER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 0032680816     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.738393     Document Type: Article

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