LB-219 : Ballistics: Overview for Technicians, Engineers & Scientists

Terminal, Interior and Exterior Ballistics

• Terminal Ballistics
  • Theoretical and Experimental Considerations
  • Kinetic Energy (KE) Penetrators
  • Shaped Charge (SC) Penetrators
  • Explosively Formed Penetrators
  • Armors and Armor Arrays: Rolled Homogeneous Steel (RHS), High Hardness Steed (HHS), Aluminum(AL), Ceramics & Ceramic Composites; Other Target Arrays
  • Material Properties: Penetrators & Armors
  • Projectile & Sabot Design; Effect of Nose Shape & Caps
  • Effects of Low, High, and Hyper Velocity on Penetration
  • Effects of Obliquity and Spacings on Penetration
• Interior Ballistics
• Theoretical and Experimental Considerations
• Effects of Primers on Ignition & Propellant Bed Burning
• Effects fo Propellant Types and Relative Quickness
• Area Under the Curve: Pressure versus Time Curves
• Stick, Ball, Multiperf and other Propellant COnfigurations
• Methods of Obtaining Higher Velocity
• Gun and Chamber Designs
• Light Gas, Electromagnetic and other Launcher Types
• Expansion Ratio: Effects of Increased Barrel Length and Chamber Volume Dimensions
• Exterior Ballistics
• Drag Coefficients and Their Effect on terminal Velocities at Low, Ordnance, High and Hyper Velocity
• History & Considerations for Commercially Available Bullets
• Sierra Computer Program as an Example reference to Bob McCoy's Book on exterior Ballistics
• Lessons Learned
• NOTE: THERE ARE NO PREREQUISITS FOR ANY OF THESE TRAINING COURSES; CONCEPTS AND NOT EQUATIONS ARE STRESSED; EQUATIONS ARE ONLY USED TO EXPLAIN A CONCEPT; INSTRUCTORS ARE MOSTLY "HANDS ON PEOPLE" WHO HAVE DONE THEIR OWN WORK.