Railgun with integrated electrothermal preacceleration

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 529-533

  Wisken, Holger G ^a   Schade, Dieter W ^a   Braunsberger, Ulrich E ^a   Salge, Jürgen G H ^a   Jean Jacques, Alexander M ^b   Dirr, Bernhard ^b   Igenbergs, Eduard B ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 84936895639     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.195631     Document Type: Article

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