Multiple Propellant Billet Gas Generator

Abstract

A multiple propellant billet gas generator, and method for using the gas generator, for ejecting payloads from an underwater hull. The gas generator includes a housing having a plurality of billet holding chambers, a plurality of gas generating billets held within individual billet holding chambers, an initiator system capable of selecting various patterns of gas generating billets for an initiated burn with a release mechanism controlling exhaust from the initiated burn.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 25, 2005
Accession Number
ADD020199

Entities

People

  • Peter J. Hardro

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anti-Torpedo Torpedoes
  • Connectors
  • Countermeasures
  • Exhaust Nozzles
  • Explosives Initiators
  • Fish
  • Geometry
  • Inventions
  • Launch Tubes
  • Patents
  • Propellant Grains
  • Propellants
  • Release
  • Release Mechanisms
  • Test Methods
  • Undersea Warfare
  • Underwater Structures

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Rocket Propulsion.