Overview of the Electric Launch Activities at the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL)

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 24-28

  Lehmann, Pascale ^a  

^a FRENCH GERMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS   (France)

Author keywords

Active armor; ETC gun; PFN; Railgun

Indexed keywords

ARMOR; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMA GUNS; RAIL GUNS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SOLID PROPELLANTS; THYRISTORS;

ELECTRIC GUN; ELECTROTHERMALCHEMICAL GUN; FAST-DISCHARGE CAPACITOR; METALLIC BRUSH ARMATURE; PANCAKE COIL; PULSE FORMING NETWORK; SOLID-STATE OPENING SWITCH;

GUNS (ARMAMENT);

EID: 0037235533     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.805917     Document Type: Article

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