Electromagnetic railguns

Author

Reip, P.W.

Author_Institution

R. Armament Res. & Dev. Establ., Sevenoaks, UK

fYear

1989

fDate

32851

Firstpage

811

Lastpage

813

Abstract

For some military applications such as anti-armour and air defence, increasing muzzle velocity leads to significant increases in weapon performance. The EM railgun has already demonstrated velocities in excess of 10 km/sec and muzzle energies over 6 MJ, and ideally requires a high current, low voltage pulsed power system. The author describes options and problems associated with railguns and their power supplies

Keywords

electromagnetic launchers; military equipment; power supplies to apparatus; pulsed power technology; weapons; 10000 m/s; 6 MJ; electromagnetic railguns; military equipment; muzzle velocity; pulsed power system; weapon performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Pulsed Power Applications, IEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

Filename

209810

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=283726