Explosive magnetic generators for feeding rail-gun launchers for solid projectiles
Abstract
The paper formulates the principal requirements for an explosive magnetic generator to be used as an energy source for rail-gun launchers for solid projectiles. In particular, to achieve uniformly accelerated motion, the inductance of the generator is determined as a function of time, and the feasibility of its implementation in plane, spiral, and cylindrical generators is investigated. A velocity of 5 km/s for a 1.2-1.3-g projectile has been achieved by using a plane explosive magnetic generator and a 0.9-m-long rail gun.
- Publication:
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Fizika Goreniia i Vzryva
- Pub Date:
- August 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986FizGV..22...76A
- Keywords:
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- Electromagnetic Acceleration;
- Explosive Devices;
- Impulse Generators;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Projectiles;
- Railgun Accelerators;
- Inductance;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering