Lockheed Martin Corporation

The United States of America As Represented by the United States

David Lewis Smith

Robert B Miller

Richard John Adler

Michael G Mazarakis

Steven L Shope

Mandel Durwood Floyd

Ronald J Kaye

Matthew Aubuchon

Apparatus and methods provide thermal management of a propulsion circuit in an electromagnetic munition launcher.

Thermal management of a propulsion circuit in an electromagnetic munition launcher

An autogenerating apparatus provides secondary intense relativistic current beam pulses in response to an injected beam pulse. One or more electromagnetic energy storage devices are provided in conjunction with gaps along a beam propagation path for the injected beam pulse. For injected beam pulses which are no longer than double the transit time of electromagnetic waves within the storage devices (which may be resonant cavities), distinct secondary beam pulses are generated by each of the energy storage devices. The beam propagation path, together with the one or more gaps provided therein, operates as a pulse forming transmission line cavity, in which the separate cavities associated with the gaps provide delays for electromagnetic waves generated at the gaps. After doubly traversing the cavity, the electromagnetic waves cause the gap to generate the secondary beam pulses, which are thus delayed by a time interval equal to the double transit time for the induced wave within the cavity.

Autogenerator of beams of charged particles

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Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

David Lewis Smith