Accession Number:

ADA235325

Title:

High Velocity Firings of Slug Projectiles in a Double-Travel 120-MM Gun System

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Nov 1989-Feb 1990

Corporate Author:

ARMY BALLISTIC RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD

Personal Author(s):

• Colburn, Joseph W.
• Keele, Michael J.
• Bowen, James E.

Report Date:

1991-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

37.0

Abstract:

Test firings were planned and executed by the Interior Ballistics Division IBD of the Ballistic Research Laboratory BRL to support high velocity, scaled projectile firings for the Terminal ballistics Division TBD of BRL. IBD conducted a computer evaluation of gun propellants available to TBD using the interior ballistic code IBHVG2, then verified the results with a series of slug projectile firings at BRLs Sandy Point Range 18 large caliber firing facility. Interior ballistic results from the computer evaluation were compared with corresponding data from the slug firings and the first series of scaled projectile firings conducted by TBD.

Descriptors:

• *HIGH VELOCITY
• *FIRING TESTS(ORDNANCE)
• INTERIOR BALLISTICS
• FACILITIES
• GUN PROPELLANTS
• COMPUTERS
• TEST AND EVALUATION
• PROJECTILES

Subject Categories:

• Guns

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE