Abstract:The rapid fire railgun (RAFIRA) developed at the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL) is a medium-caliber (25 mm × 25 mm) system designed to obtain very high fire rates (>50 Hz). It has an acceleration length of 3 m and is therefore comparable with existing close-in weapon systems such as Goalkeeper or Phalanx. In this paper, the singleshot performance of RAFIRA is presented. While RAFIRA has, in the past, mainly been used for multishot studies, its 3.4-MJ power supply allowed testing speed li… Show more
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