Making a Wootz Tanto Knife from an armor-piercing projectile from the Second World War. This armor-piercing projectile was ...

PepperBall® today announced four new projectiles designed to expand agency options while reinforcing the PepperBall ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- Three employees of the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, or ARDEC, were awarded with a U.S. patent for their proof of concept work on a ...

Suppose you throw some object near the surface of the earth. If the only significant force on the object is the constant downward gravitational force, we call this "projectile motion." Yes, that ...

Learn how to maximize the range of a giant cannon projectile using key physics principles! This tutorial breaks down launch angle, speed, and projectile motion to help you understand how to achieve ...

It is that FIRST Robotics competition time of the year. Basically, in FIRST, high school students work in teams to build robots that compete in specific tasks. Apparently, this year a task involves ...

The Office of Naval Research is getting ready to deploy their electromagnetic Railgun for testing for the first time next year. But what is a gun without ammo? The Hyper Velocity Projectile is being ...

Engineers in England have achieved nuclear fusion by firing a giant gun at a fuel sample. Researchers at First Light Fusion designed the method to be as simple as possible, and a viable alternative to ...

[Mike] built a sensor rig to measure projectile speed. The setup uses a tunnel with two sensors in it. Each consists of a laser diode on one side focused on a photodiode in the other. The two are ...