Projectiles

Projectile captured with pco.4000 camera. 4" diameter projectile travelling at 1000 m/s with a 15 µs exposure.

Taken with the sensicam high speed camera at one microsecond exposure time. Courtesy of Brian Fuchs, TACOM-ARDEC

Warheads taken with the SensiCam High Speed Camera and Cookescope. Exposure time 300 ns @4500 feet per second. Courtesy of Chang Industries. Image taken with SensiCam High Speed (SVGA) Camera.

Hypervelocity Impact of an aluminum ball (few mm's size)penetrating a thick steel plate. Taken with the HSFC-PRO Imaging System
Image taken with SensiCam High Speed (SVGA) Camera

This high speed photograph was taken using a regular still camera and the PALFLASH 501. One single bullet is captured as it travels at 800 m/sec. Exposure time is 500 nanoseconds each and time intervals are 50, 200, and 50 microseconds.

100 mm projectile Sabot separation at 10 meters downrange from gun muzzle, velocity 1600 m/sec @ 2 µsec gate.

One Pellet in Flight500 nsec single exposure
field-of-view 1.5"x 2"

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