Design and testing of a coil-unit barrel for helical coil electromagnetic launcher

Dong Yang1, Zhenxiang Liu2, Ting Shu1

  • 1College of Opto-electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China.

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