Advanced Gun Systems Design
Issued by
UNSW
This course provides participants with an in-depth understanding of firepower technologies, the way they work and an overview of the equipment and systems that are used in and with guns. You will receive an overview of firepower technologies and an introduction to the way guns work, recoil, installation and ammunition concepts as well as gun manufacture.
- Type Learning
- Level Advanced
- Time Days
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Articulate the physics of gun operation and firing
- Describe alternative projectile launch possibilities
- Describe the issues associated with gun manufacture
- Present calculations on recoil, gun droop, anticipated projectile velocities, fragment velocities and stress wave propagation and reflection
- Principles of gun design and operation