Sonic Rarefaction Wave Low Recoil Gun.

摘要

A principal challenge faced by the U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC Benet Laboratories in the design of armaments for lightweight future fighting vehicles with lethality overmatch is mitigating the deleterious effects of large caliber cannon recoil. The sonic RArefaction waVE low recoil guN (RAVEN) is a novel invention to dramatically reduce the gas momentum contribution to recoil with absolutely no reduction in me ballistic efficiency of launch. This technology is being investigated as part of the future combat vehicle armaments program conducted at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, and Watervliet Arsenal, NY.