Flashless Propellants

Abstract

A survey is made of the work conducted at Woolwich and elsewhere on the development of flashless propellants from the earliest date at which records on this subject have been available. The items included are, for the most part, quoted from the Minutes of the Ordnance Committee and Ordnance Board, from departmental reports and, in the case of work abroad, from publications in scientific journals. The main theories put forward to account for the factors which have been found to control, the occurrence or suppression of muzzle flash are reviewed and a detailed resume is given of the steps by which flashlessness has been achieved in ordnance of pressively increasing size. The application of modified ignition systems has been involved and the advances have also been concerned with improvements in ballistic regularity, chemical stability, reduced gun erosion and the minimising of the amount of smoke accompanying the firing. A description is given of the method of manufacture and some of the properties of the new ingredient, nitroguanidine, which has been adopted, for the first time as the main constituent of gun propellants.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1948
Accession Number
ADA493390

Entities

People

  • J. N. Pring

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Organic Chemistry

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  • Rocket Propulsion.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • Theoretical Analysis.