STATIC AND DYNAMIC STABILITY STUDIES ON SEVERAL LAZY DOG CONFIGURATIONS AT SUBSONIC AND TRANSONIC SPEEDS

Abstract

A summary is presented of the investigations conducted in the Naval Ordnance Laboratory's Supersonic Tunnel No. 1 on several of the Navy's Lazy Dog weapon configurations. Lazy Dog is a free-fall missile employing a 50 caliber bullet or its core as the basic aerodynamic body. Static stability tests were conducted on six configurations over a Mach number range from 0.3 to 1.3. Dynamic stability tests were made using the more promising configurations. In addition to these tests, ballistics range firings were conducted. As a consequence of the information obtained in this investigation, two alternate configurations have been proposed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 18, 1964
Accession Number
AD0352807

Entities

People

  • C. Powers
  • J. B. Eades Jr.

Organizations

  • Naval Ordnance Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Aerodynamics
  • Data Reduction
  • Equations
  • Flight
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Mach Number
  • Measurement
  • Moment Of Inertia
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Shape
  • Steady State
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Wind Tunnel Models
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • ballistics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow