Acoustic Shotgun System

Abstract

The present invention relates to a high velocity acoustic shotgun system and more particularly to a method and apparatus for dispersing a plurality of relatively small, supercavitating projectiles in the water over a wide spatial field at long ranges from an underwater gun or surface gun.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 16, 2009
Accession Number
ADD020413

Entities

People

  • Robert Kuklinski

Organizations

  • Naval Undersea Warfare Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Signals
  • Ammunition
  • Chambers
  • Clearances
  • Collapse
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Chambers
  • Dispersing
  • Explosive Charges
  • Gun Barrels
  • Inventions
  • Noise
  • Projectiles
  • Radiated Noise
  • Targeting
  • Targets
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.
  • ballistics.