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    Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles, especially ranged weapon munitions...
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  • Internal ballistics (also interior ballistics), a subfield of ballistics, is the study of the propulsion of a projectile. In guns, internal ballistics covers...
    45 KB (6,409 words) - 04:56, 9 September 2024
  • External ballistics or exterior ballistics is the part of ballistics that deals with the behavior of a projectile in flight. The projectile may be powered...
    109 KB (13,571 words) - 06:38, 12 September 2024
  • situated at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland that specialized in ballistics (interior, exterior, and terminal) as well as vulnerability and lethality analysis...
    58 KB (7,398 words) - 10:46, 1 September 2023
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    Terminal ballistics is a sub-field of ballistics concerned with the behavior and effects of a projectile when it hits and transfers its energy to a target...
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    than educated guesses at this time. Hirschfelder headed the E-8 Interior Ballistics Group. His group performed mathematical calculations, but he also...
    17 KB (2,163 words) - 10:37, 29 May 2024
  • numerous flight variables. In addition to modeling the flight, the interior ballistics were modeled by continuously altering polynomial curves until they...
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    United States Naval Institute. pp. 63–68. Smith, Selwyn D. (1965). Interior Ballistics of Guns. Washington DC: United States Army Material Command. p. 1-2...
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    Sabot (firearms) (category Ballistics)
    of equal diameter to achieve high muzzle velocity. The physics of interior ballistics demonstrates why the use of a sabot is advantageous to achieve higher...
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    responsibility for developing the new 25x137mm ammunition and the interior ballistics of the TRW-6425. The first prototype was produced in 22 months and...
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    1943, the E-7 (Delivery) Group under Norman Ramsey and the E-8 (Interior Ballistics) Group under Joseph O. Hirschfelder. A proving ground was established...
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  • British mathematician and physicist. He is best known for his work on interior ballistics and the British hydrogen bomb programme. John Corner was born in...
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    February 1913. Rheingans, W. R. (March–April 1936). "Exterior and Interior Ballistics of Bows and Arrows - Review". Archery Review: 236 ff. Rheingans,...
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  • QuickLOAD (category Ballistics)
    QuickLOAD is an internal ballistics predictor computer program for firearms. For computations apart from other parameters, the cartridge the projectile...
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    Hirschfelder was brought in as an expert on internal ballistics, and headed the Interior Ballistics Group. From the beginning, Parsons wanted Norman Ramsey...
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    heavy bullets and higher than normal powder charges to achieve superior ballistics and better hunting performance. One of these hand-loaders was Elmer Keith...
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    ACR program was abandoned due to reliability problems and poor terminal ballistics.[citation needed] Mortar barrels are typically muzzle-loading smoothbores...
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    arc prior to joining the regular cast in the sixth season. He played ballistics expert Kurt McVeigh on The Good Wife and on The Good Fight. On both shows...
    32 KB (1,562 words) - 00:34, 11 September 2024
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    Comparison microscope (category Ballistics)
    firearms examiner has been what is often called the ballistics comparison microscope. The interior of a gun's barrel is machined to have grooves (called...
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    discussion of a new method of solving the essential problems of interior ballistics. Following his teaching assignment, he was assigned administrative...
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