Engineering Investigation and Tests Which Further Substantiate System Feasibility and Provide Data Relative to the Development of a Nuclear Low Altitude Supersonic Vehicle. Part II. Technical Information. Volume 9. Nuclear Radiation Effects Test No. 10, Flyaway

摘要

A series of radar components, a secondary power unit, several flight test instrumentation sensors, several advanced computer components, and portions of a command control subsystem were exposed to nuclear radiation levels exceeding 5 x 10 to the 15th power fast neutrons /sq cm and a gamma exposure of 5 x 10 to the 10th power ergs/gm-(C). Dynamic test data recorded before, during, and after the irradiation are presented for magnetrons, high power metal-ceramic hydrogen thyration tubes, pulse modulators, microwave ferrite devices, preamplifiers, a turbine-generator unit, rate gyros, accelerometers, portions of a command control receiver and decoder, tunnel diodes, thin film parametron elements, and circuitrons. (Author)