Advanced Tactical Booster Technologies: Applications for Long-Range Rocket Systems

Abstract

This paper describes a number of technology advantages currently under development for tactical rocket motors which have direct application to land-based long-range rocket systems. Materials advances that enable superior inert mass fractions, along with innovative optimization design techniques have the potential to allow for increased rocket payload capacity, improved rocket range or increased rocket loadout from the volumetrically constrained environment of a land-based launcher.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 07, 2016
Accession Number
AD1016721

Entities

People

  • Jason Mossman
  • Matthew Mckinna

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Air Launched
  • Carbon Fibers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environment
  • Fibers
  • High Energy Propellants
  • Launchers
  • Mach Number
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Military Research
  • Optimization
  • Payload
  • Propellant Grains
  • Rocket Engines

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Systems Analysis and Design