A Critical Review of the Dry Friction and Compressible Fluid Recoil/Counter-Recoil Concepts

摘要

This report reviews two new recoil systems as possible replacements for the conventional mechanisms currently in use on medium and large size cannon. One uses compressible fluid to dissipate energy in viscous friction and store elastic energy for counter recoil. The other uses coulomb or dry friction for dissipation of the recoil energy.