Hybrid armature projectile

Hawke, Ronald S; Asay, James R; Hall, Clint A; Konrad, Carl H; Sauve, Gerald L; Shahinpoor, Mohsen; Susoeff, Allan R

Hybrid armature projectile

Patent · Thu Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:868686

Hawke, Ronald S ^[1]; Asay, James R ^[2]; Hall, Clint A ^[3]; Konrad, Carl H ^[3]; Sauve, Gerald L ^[4]; Shahinpoor, Mohsen ^[3]; Susoeff, Allan R ^[5]

Livermore, CA
Los Lunas, NM
Albuquerque, NM
Berthoud, CO
Pleasanton, CA

A projectile for a railgun that uses a hybrid armature and provides a seed block around part of the outer surface of the projectile to seed the hybrid plasma brush. In addition, the hybrid armature is continuously vaporized to replenish plasma in a plasma armature to provide a tandem armature and provides a unique ridge and groove to reduce plasama blowby.

Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: W-7405-ENG-48; AC04-76DP00789

Assignee:: United States of America as represented by Department of Energy (Washington, DC)

Patent Number(s):: US 5191164

OSTI ID:: 868686

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (6)

Railgun experiment at tokyo institute of technology No authors listed IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 22, Issue 6, p. 1790-1792 https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.1986.1064647	journal	November 1986
Railgun performance with a two-stage light-gas gun injector Hawke, R. S.; Susoeff, A. R.; Asay, J. R. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 27, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/20.100988	journal	January 1991
The electromagnetic rocket gun -- A novel launch concept Winterberg, F. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 20, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.1984.1063076	journal	March 1984
Armature options for hypervelocity railguns Thornhill, L. D.; Batteh, J. H.; Brown, J. L. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 25, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/20.22599	journal	January 1989
Use of a two-stage light-gas gun as an injector for electromagnetic railguns Shahinpoor, M.; Asay, J. R.; Konrad, C. H. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 25, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/20.22592	journal	January 1989
Plasma armature formation in high-pressure, high-velocity hydrogen Hawke, R. S.; Susoeff, A. R.; Asay, J. R. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 25, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/20.22537	journal	January 1989

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