Environmentally Friendly Advanced Gun Propellants

摘要

The primary objective of this effort is to identify a suitable replacement for medium caliber ammunition propellants that is environmentally more acceptable, has good safety properties, provides an increased level of performance, and maintains a reasonably low cost. This program is designed to develop an ETPE based gun propellant that meets these criteria. This program will provide three deliverables: first, the manufacture of a down selected ETPE based propellant formulation and the manufacture of twelve rounds of each 25 mm and 30 mm ammunition employing this ETPE based propellant; second, test data: 25 mm gun firing performance in reference to M-793 ammunition and 30-mm gun firing performance in reference to GAU8A ammunition; and third, reports documenting refinement and analysis of two ETPE based gun propellants.