Terminal ballistics

Effective Fragment. In terminal ballistics a fragment whose mass, velocity and form, upon impact with the target, are such as to enable the fragment to accomplish the desired effect... 

This brief discussion highlights the role of target vulnerability analysis in the larger and more complex process of system analysis related to munition effectiveness or improvement in survivability of our own equipment. But, although target vulnerability analysis is only an element in the more complex scheme of things, it in itself is quite complex and must in turn assume or accept inputs from other sophisticated disciplines such as terminal ballistics and mathematical theory of statistics. The structure of target vulnerability analysis therefore is discussed next... 

Chapter 2 covers threats and basic damage mechanisms associated with a wide variety of nonnuclear weapons and munitions. It also touches on terminal ballistics, but does not cover this extensive topic in detail... 

Ballistics 2 B7-B8 exterior ballistics 2 B7 interior ballistics 2 B7 7 II14 terminal ballistics 9 T63—T68... 

Terminal Ballistics. Terminal ballistics is concerned with the principles underlying the effects of weapons on targets to include penetration, fragmentation, detonation, shaped charge, blast, combustion, and incendiary effects... 

Refs 1) Anon, EngrgDesHndbk, Elements of Terminal Ballistics, Part One, Introduction, Kill Mechanisms and Vulnerability , AMCP 706-160 (1962) 2) Anon, EngrgDesHndbk, Elements... 

Backman, Terminal Ballistics , Naval Weapons Center TP 5780 (1976), ADA 021833 5) J.P. Lambert et al, Standardization of Terminal Ballistics Testing, Data Storage and Retrieval , ARBRL-TR-02066 (1978), ADE 430062... 

Studies previously initiated were intensified during WW1I and have been confined for the purpose of having a greater store of technical data pertinent to terminal ballistics. Much of this data relating to the performance of ammo and the vulnerability of targets, has been published (see Refs)... 

Because terminal ballistic effects ordinarily appear as instantaneous events to the layman, the time factor in terminal ballistic investigations has often been the limiting factor, ie, the ability to physically record detailed reactions which take place during time intervals of the order of several microseconds... 

K. Sperry, and E. S. Sweeney, Terminal Ballistic Characteristics of Hydra-Shok Ammunition A Description of Three Cases, Journal of Forensic Sciences 33, no. 1 (January 1988) 42. 

Ricchiazzi, A.J. and Barb, J.C., A Tentative Model for Predicting the Terminal Ballistic Effects of Blunt Fragments Against Single and Spaced Targets, A Comparison of Predicted and Experimental Results, BRL Memorandum Report 257, ... 

Johnson, C. and Moseley, J.W., Preliminary Warhead Terminal Ballistic Handbook Part I, Terminal Ballistic Effects, NWL Report No. 1821, NAVWEPS Report No. 7673, US Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren, Virginia, March 196. (U)... 

Quatros, J.H., Terminal Ballistics of Non-lethal Projectiles, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Ballistics, Quebec, Canada, September 26-29,1993. 

Winchester s enhanced. 40 S W service ammunition is a 180-grain bonded jacketed hollow point round and was selected over all other rounds that were tested. The FBI tests [see Chapter 8 Non-Toxic - What s Available and What s Coming] the terminal ballistics of each round by shooting a specific test protocol through various barriers such as heavy cloth, wallboard, plywood, steel and auto glass into ballistic gelatin. 

Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory, Defence Researeh and Development Organization, Sector 30, Chandigarh, India Regional Silk Technological Research Station, Central Silk Board, Muga Farm,... 

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