Design of Fluidic Devices for Small Arms Stabilization,

Abstract

The feasibility of stabilizing small arms in full automatic fire by use of fluidics was investigated. The man-gun interaction was studied to define the role of the fluidic system components. A system consisting of angular rate sensors, signal amplifiers, a fluid-to-mechanical converter, and a controllable muzzle device was postulated. A hydraulic analog of muzzle gas flow was developed to aid in design of the controllable muzzle device. This analog expands the gas-flow time scale by a factor of one thousand. Thus, designs are easily modeled, and the resulting flow interaction with the model is readily observable in the laboratory. The proposed system appears to be feasible, and the design techniques for further development are available. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1970
Accession Number
ADA092027

Entities

People

  • Chris E. Spyropoulos
  • Lyndon S. Cox

Organizations

  • Harry Diamond Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Angular Motion
  • Automatic
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Converters
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluidic Amplifiers
  • Fluidic Devices
  • Fluidics
  • Fluids
  • Gas Flow
  • Guns
  • Small Arms
  • Stabilization Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • ballistics.