Rheinmetall Gmbh

Tzn Forschungs- Und Entwicklungszentrum Unterluss Gmbh

Tzn Forschungs- Und Entwicklungs-zentrum

Ulrich Braunsberger

Markus Loffler

Wolfram Witt

Jurgen Salge

A device for accelerating projectiles from a muzzle of a launching tube, with an electrically heated plasma, the plasma being produced by two electrodes between which is formed an electric arc that creates and heats the plasma. To assure in a simple manner that the pressure at the projectile base is almost constant during launching of the projectile, one of the two electrodes is provided at a breechblock of the tube and the other is formed by the base of the projectile.

Projectile accelerating device

An inductive energy converter includes a coil assembly having coil windings, with at least some of the coil windings respectively having spaced contact regions. A contact bar within the coil assembly is insulated from the coil windings, and a conductive body is in electrical contact with the contact bar and is movably supported by the coil assembly, wherein movement of the conductive body brings it into electrical contact with consecutive ones of the spaced contact regions, to complete an electrical circuit between one of the windings and the contact bar.

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Munich, Georgia

Ulrich Braunsberger