Transcript Launching Systems - University of Arizona

Launching Systems
Launching Systems
Purpose: To place a weapon into a flight path
as rapidly as the situation demands.
Requirements
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Speed
Reliability
Safety
Compatibility
Functions of a Launching
System
Storage
- Safe and readily accessible until needed.
Transfer
- Move from storage to launcher and back.
Loading
- Put into ready to fire position.
Control
- Direct and point launcher (LOF)
- Provide Weapons Orders
Launching - Get the weapon away
- Protect ship and people
Three Types of Launchers
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Gravity
- Slow moving aircraft
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Impulse
- Force to separate weapon from the
launcher is created by the launcher
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Reaction
- Force to separate weapon from the
launcher is created by the weapon
Gravity Type Launchers
Initial velocity and
orientation are
supplied by the
delivery vehicle
 No sudden shock
 Airflow restriction
for fast moving
high performance
aircraft
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Impulse Type Launchers
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Gun-type launchers
- Gases created by low explosive
- Internal stress
- 5” Mk-45, 20mm Phalanx Mk-15 (CIWS)
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Ejector-type
- Gases created by a high-pressure gas system
on the launching platform
- Tube launchers: TLAM, Torpedo, Harpoon,
Trident
- Bombs dropped for high-speed aircraft
5” Gun
CIWS
Chain Gun
Mk-38
16”
Ejector Type Launching
Reaction Type of Launchers
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Rail
- Weapon travels along a rail, tube, ramp, or tower
- Launcher provides initial guidance
- LAU-130 folding fin rocket launcher
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Zero Length
- Rail less than 8cm
- No initial guidance or flight control from launcher
- Mk-26 twin-arm missile launcher, Mk-13 single-arm
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Canister
- Launcher also used for weapon storage
- Requirements – heat and shock of launch, exhaust
gas system
- VLS, Harpoon launcher, Box launcher for ASROC,
Tomahawk
Mk 13
Mk 26 – “Double Arm Bandit”
Mk 26 Again
Questions???