The last time I looked at this projectile motion lab, I was confused. My different methods for measuring the launch speed of the ball were not even close to being consistent. So, I am bringing out the ...
The Office of Naval Research is getting ready to deploy their electromagnetic Railgun for testing for the first time next year. But what is a gun without ammo? The Hyper Velocity Projectile is being ...
About year and a half ago, researchers at the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office realized that the Army and Navy could use the Hyper Velocity Projectiles (HVP) rounds meant for the railgun in ...
One of the SCO’s priorities was adapting technology from “railguns”. Such guns use neither explosives nor propellant, but instead rely on electromagnetic forces to fire projectiles at speeds of up to ...
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Guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG-105) transits the Pacific Ocean while underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations. US Navy Photo Last summer USS Dewey (DDG-105) fired 20 hyper velocity ...
The Navy, DoD and even the Army are also experimenting with integrating the rail gun hypervelocity projectile with existing weapons platforms such as the Navy’s 5-inch guns or Army Howitzer. Also, the ...
Artillery is getting a speed boost at the US Army Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, where General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) test fired a hypersonic projectile multiple times using the ...