POWER AND SPACE REQUIREMENTS FOR SIMULATION OF MACHINE GUN MOUNTS

Abstract

The electric power and site requirements are established for a single degree-of-motion-freedom machine gun mount simulator capable of supporting all automatic small arms through 30 millimeter weapons. The concept of using an electromechanical servomechanism to simulate the mass, stiffness, and damping characteristics of the gun mount is shown analytically to be feasible. Experimental verification of the simulation concept is demonstrated by burst- firing of a 5.56 millimeter machine gun on a scale model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0642717

Entities

People

  • David Gelfond

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Ammunition
  • Automatic
  • Electric Power
  • Firing Rate
  • Gun Mounts
  • Guns
  • Machine Guns
  • Military Research
  • Mounts
  • Power
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Small Arms
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • ballistics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers