A principal challenge faced by the U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC Benet Laboratories in the design of armaments for lightweight future
fighting vehicles with lethality overmatch is mitigating the deleterious effects of large caliber cannon recoil. The sonic RArefaction waVE
low recoil guN (RAVEN) is a novel invention to dramatically reduce the gas momentum contribution to recoil with absolutely no reduction
in the ballistic efficiency of launch. This technology is being investigated as part of the future combat vehicle armaments program
conducted at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, and Watervliet Arsenal, NY.
A principal challenge faced by the U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC Benet Laboratories in the design of armaments for lightweight future
fighting vehicles with lethality overmatch is mitigating the de…