Charts for the Exterior Ballistics of Mortar Fire Based on the Square Law of Drag
Abstract
It has been often felt that the development of mortar fire would proceed more certainly and rapidly if diverse exterior ballistic calculations for this fire could be made more widely and more frequently. For this reason a need was felt for a method of exterior ballistic calculations for mortar fire that would be not only correct but, particularly, very simple. Such a method is found in the well-known and old assumption that the drag on the shell varies simply as the square of the shell's velocity.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 02, 1948
- Accession Number
- AD0140220
Entities
People
- D. M. Brooks
- Serge J. Zaroodny
Organizations
- Ballistic Research Laboratory