PROJECT HARP TEST FIRING SERIES (NOVEMBER 1965)
Abstract
A review and analysis of results of the fourteenth test firing series of Project HARP with the Barbados 16 inch gun. The series consisted of twenty- seven rounds, fired in the period from 10 to 23 November 1965. Fifteen rounds carried TMA release payloads for wind measurements in two night series. A further round had a Cesium payload with a point release for ionospheric studies. The remaining eleven rounds were for engineering development tests of a sea- impact payload (two rounds), the self-destruct system (three rounds), an ejection system with a parachute telemetry package (three rounds). Two rounds carried a telemetry package to measure time pulses and temperatures in the electronics section and to test a high gain differential amplifier, in one of these rounds in addition to the TMA payload in the synoptic series. Finally two test slugs were fired as engineering tests of the gun and another propellant whereby also a new method of loading, by inserting spacers between the propellant bags, was tried out.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1966
- Accession Number
- AD0666744
Entities
People
- H. J. Luckert
Organizations
- McGill University