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MWB/LB-82 : Guns, Range Design & Operation for Research & Development and Test & Evaluation
* Design of experiments for Research and Development (R&D) and Test & Evaluation (T&E)
* Range Design and Instrumentation
* Gun Selection & Designs
* Launch Systems available for your particular mass and velocity requirements
* Scaling: Interior Ballistics
- Interior ballistics for varying velocities of launch packages; testing in air; testing in evacuated tank systems
- Techniques for increasing launch package velocities
- General rules of thumb for relative quickness of propellants
- Effects of primers - to eliminate catastrophic failures
* Scaling Gun Systems
- Never use the same propellants going from a smaller caliber to a larger caliber - in general, the smaller caliber uses a faster propellant than the larger caliber
* Basics of gun designs
- General rules of thumb for gun design & material types, strength and hardness levels
* Scaling terminal ballistics
- Armor Types (different materials); thicknesses; obliquity
* Research and Development Objectives
- Feasibility Studies
- Engineering and Testing Considerations
* Test & Evaluation Considerations.
* Materials selections and heat treatments
* Basic design considerations for gun chambers and gun barrel designs
* Autofrettagging techniques for gun chambers and gun barrels
* Launch package considerations
- Sabots for long rods;fragments
- Smoothe bore or rifled gun tubes;
- Method of stabilization for KE or other type of penetrator
* Methods to measure velocity, pressure, yaw, launch package separation, etc.
* Safety in operation & handling of propellants/explosives
* Safety firing circuits & test range rules for operation
* High Speed Photography and High Speed X-Ray use in range operation
* Safety in using High Speed Rotating Prism type cameras, High Energy Lasers and capacitors
* Thread Design & Techniques to avoid catastrophic failures
* Design of threads and gun/chamber designs to fail on your terms, not on "Murphy's Law"
* Accurate record keeping & reporting - truth only
* Lessons Learned
