Vulnerability of a Half-Track Vehicle to Blast (U); BRL Memorandum Report No. 1269
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland: U. S. Army, Ballistic Research Laboratories, 1960. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Stapled into a stiff card binder. 46 pages, plus accession cards at back. Photographs. Appendix. Distribution list (less than 60 copies identified). Ex-library copy with usual library markings. Formerly Confidential but declassified to Unclassified. Markings and cross-outs associated with declassification on covers and pages. The Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland was the center for the United States Army's research efforts in ballistics (interior, exterior, and terminal) as well as vulnerability/lethality analysis. In 1992, the BRL's mission, personnel, and facilities were incorporated into the newly created Army Research Laboratory. BRL was "established by the Ordnance Department (Ordnance Corps) because they recognized that Ballistics, the study of the motion of projectiles, provides a rational foundation for the design and development of Ordnance." BRL's permanent technical staff was augmented by a number of eminent scientists and engineers serving in various capacities. Among those was noted American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble who served as Chief of the External Ballistics Branch of the BRL during which he directed a large volume of research in exterior ballistics during the war which increased the effective fire power of bombs and projectiles. His work was facilitated by his personal development of several items of equipment for the instrumentation used in exterior ballistics, the most outstanding development being the high-speed clock camera. The results of his studies was credited with greatly improving design, performance, and military effectiveness of bombs and rockets. The results of blast trials conducted against M-16 Armored Half-Track vehicles were presented along with estimates of the lethal distances within which the ground burst of a 216-lb bare spherical Pentolite charge would result in either a quick or slow kill to the vehicles due to mechanical or structural failure. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Blast, Vulnerability, Survivability, Half-Track, M-16 Armored, Military Vehicles, Test Procedures, Weapon Effects, Pentolite
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