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pointhand Home >> Academics >> GSEAS >> Physics >> Weapons System Research Projects
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  Physics Department Weapons Systems Research Projects

 

railgun

Rail gun technology Applications

  • Hyper-velocity weapons systems
  • Naval Gun fire support
  • Close in weapons systems
  • Carrier based catapult systems
  • “All electric ship”
FELmodel

Free Electron Laser

In the FEL, the relativistic electron beam (red) passes through a periodic magnetic undulator field (green) in the presence of laser light (blue) in an open resonator. Each electron in the bunched beam radiates millions of coherent photons in one pass through the undulator.

 

robot

Autonomous Robotics

  • Autonomous Behavior
  • Biologically Inspired Mobility
  • IED Interdiction
  • Remote Surveillance
  • Force Multiplication
  • Modular Sensors
reactivity

Reactive Hypervelocity Penetration

Basic materials research directed towards identifying and quantifying conditions leading to chemical-kinetic energy coupling

 

shapecharge

Supra-Pressure Detonics

Basic investigations of detonation convergence and application
Experimentation at NAWC-China Lake and DOE-LLNL
Office of Naval Research

explosive threat reducer

Explosive Threat Reduction

Development of a robotic delivered low-cost shaped charge neutralizer Development of software algorithms for EOD in-field decision Office of Naval Research and NAVEOD CENTER

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