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muzzle velocity: a standalone construct

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muzzlevelocity1 CONSTRUCTMuzzle velocityCARLUCCI · INITIAL SPEED

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Ballistics

The speed of the shot as it leaves the barrel

Muzzle velocity is the speed of a projectile at the instant it leaves the muzzle, the handover point where interior ballistics ends and the exterior trajectory begins. It is fixed by the propellant charge, barrel length, and projectile mass, and it sets the initial condition for everything that follows: flight time, drop, drift, and retained energy. Carlucci and Jacobson's Ballistics: Theory and design of guns and ammunition treats it as the key output of the interior-ballistics cycle and input to exterior flight. The referent is the projectile's launch speed at the muzzle, the starting value of the trajectory.[1]

Unit
Speed, in metres per second or feet per second
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Measured with chronographs (optical, acoustic, or Doppler radar) just beyond the muzzle, or predicted from interior-ballistics models

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References

  1. Carlucci, D. E., & Jacobson, S. S. (2018). Ballistics: Theory and design of guns and ammunition. CRC Press. ISBN 9781138055315

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