Rail guns

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The military has had SiC on its radar screen for many years for radar applications, electronic warfare, more electric airplanes, more electric ships, more electric combat vehicles, and rail guns (which, we suppose, are also of the more electric variety). These applications require high-quality materials and large wafer sizes. Thanks to the military and its requirements for large wafers of high quality, the... 

Fig. 10.4 Generation of high dynamic pressures by projectile impact a light gas gun, b square-bore rail gun, side view, c the same, viewed down the barrel. (Adapted from Fig. 1 in [336] (Copyright 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers) with kind permission from Springer Science and Business Media B.V.)...

Electromagnetic rail gun tests have accelerated a projectile from 0 to 13,000 miles per hour in 0.2 seconds. 

Katiusha (Katyusha or Kostikov s Gun). Russ 132mm rocket launcher M-13. It consisted of a truck-mounted system for firing 16 rockets from eight rails. The M-13 weighed 7.1 tons and fired 94-lb rockets to a max range of 9846 yards... 

It contd 300-400 lbs of cast TNT. These charges were launched from a gin which was located at the stern of the ship. The K type of gun consisted of a smodth-bore barrel attached to an expansion chamber fitted with a breech mechanism. The gun was secured to the rail of the ship and could not be elevated or trained. Variations in the range were obtd by changing the weights of propelling charges... 

Tin plate, wire, rivets, pipes Ship and boiler plates, structural sections, turbine rotors, marine shafts Railway rails, crank pins, connecting rods, axles, gears, gun barrels Locomotive tyres, woocteutting tools, crusher rolls, hammers, hand chisels Car springs, tap drills, ball races Metal cutting and forming tools, drills, wire dies... 

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