Index to Benet Laboratories Technical Reports - 2002

Abstract

A principal challenge by the U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC Benet Laboratories in the design of armaments for lightweight future fighting vehicles with lethality overmatch is mitigating the deleterious effects of large caliber cannon recoil. The sonic RArefaction waVE low recoil guN (RAVEN) is a novel invention to dramatically reduce the gas momentum contribution to recoil with absolutely no reduction in the ballistic efficiency of launch. This technology is being investigated as part of the future combat vehicle armaments program conducted at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, and Watervliet Arsenal, NY.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA414435

Entities

People

  • R. D. Shuman

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accuracy
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Elastic Properties
  • Films
  • Gun Barrels
  • Guns
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Polymer Degradation
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Standards
  • Surface Finishing
  • Tank Guns
  • Thin Films

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • ballistics.