Piotr Prasuła, Beata Sztejter, P. Kasprzak, M. Chmielarek
{"title":"INCREASING THE ENERGY OF alpha, omega - DIHYDROXYPOLIBUTADIENE (HTPB) USED IN SOLID HETEROGENEOUS ROCKET PROPELLANT","authors":"Piotr Prasuła, Beata Sztejter, P. Kasprzak, M. Chmielarek","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0016.1154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0016.1154","url":null,"abstract":"Solid heterogeneous rocket propellants (SHRP), which are very popular and widely used in the armaments industry (guided missile propulsion engines and long-range, short-range and medium-range anti-aircraft rockets) have inert binders that significantly affect the final performance parameters of propulsion charges. In this study, the popular HTPB binder was modified by introducing azide groups into the polymer chain during three different syntheses. Compounds with different content of explosive groups were obtained and tested for compatibility with the essential SHRP components: ammonium chlorate(VII) and dioctyl adipate. Then, preliminary application tests of the obtained HTPB derivative were carried out, showing the potential of the obtained energetic polymer and the possibility of its use as a binder in solid heterogeneous rocket fuels.\u0000\u0000 HTPB, energetic binder, azide groups\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":439139,"journal":{"name":"PROBLEMY TECHNIKI UZBROJENIA","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115024602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CHARACTERIZATION OF TERRORISTIC EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS AND RELATED PROBLEMS","authors":"J. Rećko","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0016.1164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0016.1164","url":null,"abstract":"Improvised Explosives Devices (IEDs) are a lethal threat to soldiers in hostilities. Until now, their use has been characteristic of the military conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently, IEDs are also used in the war in Ukraine. Their popularity is mainly due to easy access to explosives and pyrotechnics (e.g. from unexploded bombs), and chemical reagents, as well as specialistic knowledge that can be obtained online. These factors contribute to creation of effective means of combat, capable of destroying manpower and enemy's military equipment at a minimal cost and amount of work. Currently, problem of improvised explosives is particularly serious due to the fact that virtually everyone is able to make high-energy materials at home, using commercially available chemical reagents or obtaining them from unexploded explosives, and using simple tools. The matter is further complicated by the fact that, as a result of experiments, newer and newer explosives are created in \"home laboratories\". Those explosives are not yet widely known and tested, which increases the risk associated with IED. In this article, explosives used by terrorist groups and amateurs of pyrotechnics have been analyzed and characterized. The problem of universal access to knowledge and materials necessary to construct explosives was also discussed.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":439139,"journal":{"name":"PROBLEMY TECHNIKI UZBROJENIA","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128364990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HYPERSONIC PROPULSION SYSTEMS – A REVIEW OF DESIGN SOLUTIONS","authors":"J. Janiszewski, R. Woźniak","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0016.1105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0016.1105","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The development of space rocket technology in the mid-twentieth century intensified research in the field of engineering materials used both for rockets and protection of space vehicles against damage, e.g., by meteorites. This development, in turn, forced the development of laboratory propulsion systems with hypersonic velocities, enabling the study and modelling of phenomena occurring at high impact velocities. Currently, to accelerate projectiles to hypersonic velocities, launching systems are applied that use the energy of the explosion of explosives or the combustion of liquid fuels, plasma, the energy of the electromagnetic field or light gases expanding. The work presents a review of the design solutions of various accelerators that enable the projectile to reach muzzle velocities above 3000 m/s. Particular attention has been paid to two-stage gas system, which uses light gases such as hydrogen and helium. The paper also presents the history and design of the first, and so far the only, Polish two-stage light gas gun developed at the Military University of Technology, with the help of which in 1973 a projectile weighing 0.5 g was fired at a speed of 4500 m/s. The paper ends with a description of the two-stage propellant system currently under construction at the Institute of Armament Technology, Faculty of Mechatronics, Armaments and Aviation, the Military University of Technology - with the considerable help of the HSW S.A. company from Stalowa Wola.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":439139,"journal":{"name":"PROBLEMY TECHNIKI UZBROJENIA","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124214590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RESEARCH ON INCREASING THE SCALE OF TEX SYNTHESIS","authors":"P. Prasuła, Monika Szkudlarek, T. Gołofit","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.9898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.9898","url":null,"abstract":"Work safety is currently the most important challenge facing the whole world. In the arms industry, the main focus is on the production of formulations containing low-sensitive explosives.4,10-dinitro-2,6,8,12-tetraoxa-4,10 diazoisovurcate (TEX) is an example of a low-sensitive blasting explosive with good detonation parameters and low sensitivity to mechanical stimuli. In this work, the synthesis of TEX was performed on an enlarged laboratory scale, and then laboratory tests were performed, such as density measurement, Raman spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy and thermal analysis, measurement of sensitivity to friction and impact. Low-sensitive explosive compositions based on TEX were made. These compositions were tested in the laboratory, charges were made and the detonation velocity of the obtained products was measured.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":439139,"journal":{"name":"PROBLEMY TECHNIKI UZBROJENIA","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126442948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A PROPOSAL FOR USING FIELD ARTILLERY CORRECTION TABLES ON DIFFERENCE OF ALTITUDES OF A TARGET AND FIRING SITE","authors":"Marian Mendel, Tadeusz Kuśnierz","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.9895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.9895","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with a proposal for correction of settings of field artillery sights caused by different altitudes above the sea level of a target C and a firing site SO. The basic principles are described for preparation and use of main firing tables and additional tables, considering the difference of altitudes between the target and the firing site, together with consequences of using the existing methodology of application of the corrective tables. An interpretation of the sight corrective tables which has been used for many decades in the field artillery of the Polish army causes that they are used in a wrong way. This error is repeatedly present in the training of servicemen, in biding instructions and methodologies, and in practical applications, as well.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":439139,"journal":{"name":"PROBLEMY TECHNIKI UZBROJENIA","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133985284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COMPANY OWNERS WITH SPECIAL ECONOMIC – DEFENSIVE MEANING IN THE SYSTEM OF STATES’S DEFENCE PREPARATIONS – FORMAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS","authors":"Jarosław Walczak, Dariusz Ampuła","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.9894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.9894","url":null,"abstract":"The article is dedicated to one of the most complex activities of the Republic of Poland in the field of security – state’s defence preparations. They are presented as all material, financial and organizational projects carried out by the public administration and, above all, by company owners. They were given the role that was directly necessary to ensure the survival and functioning of the state in a situation of security threats and in times of war, including support for their own and allied armed forces. It was assumed that merely the company owners and the economy are in a position of a key element of social security, regardless of conditions of defence readiness represented by the country. It is the economic sphere, supported by the administration, that has the most important role just in preparations of defence, and in limiting the country's sensitivity to the hostile environment. The process of operational planning was treated in a special way as an integral part of defence planning, i.e. a process of fundamental importance for the effective implementation of defence tasks. It was defined as the establishing of activities related to the preparation and operation of public administration bodies and company owners in conditions of external threats to state security and during the war, which are represented in the form of sets of operational tasks. Then, the issues related to the implementation of defence tasks by companies of special economic – defensive meaning were presented together with questions resulting from the Economy Mobilization Program and being the most important for the state's defence readiness. The tasks that companies have to fulfil under their defence obligations and the tools that enable them to do so have been reviewed. It was assumed that the Polish state made sure that this area was provided with appropriate legal and organizational solutions, and an attempt was made to evaluate and analyse some of them.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":439139,"journal":{"name":"PROBLEMY TECHNIKI UZBROJENIA","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114844752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DRONES IN WAR OF UKRAINE WITH RUSSIA","authors":"Robert Rochowicz","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.9900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.9900","url":null,"abstract":"The war in Ukraine is not a first military conflict where the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are used. Due to numerous publications presented mainly by the Ukrainian side the world almost in real time can receive information and video pictures illustrating their operational efficiency. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the inventory of unmanned vehicles used by two fighting sides and describe the results of their use from the beginning of the conflict until the end \u0000of August, 2022.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":439139,"journal":{"name":"PROBLEMY TECHNIKI UZBROJENIA","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116053299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DISCLOSED INVENTIONS ON SCREENING TECHNOLOGIES OF SOLID, HOMOGENEOUS ROCKET PROPELLANT CHARGES","authors":"M. Miszczak","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.9896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.9896","url":null,"abstract":"Results of search and analysis of Polish disclosed secret patents on screening (inhibiting) technology of solid, homogeneous rocket propellants, were presented. Due to search on this subject, seven inventions applied by Institute of Organic Chemistry as secret ones to the Polish Patent Office in years 1968-1980, were found. Pieces of information on their disclosure, i.e. about removing secrecy, were published in the News of the Patent Office issued in years 2007-2008.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":439139,"journal":{"name":"PROBLEMY TECHNIKI UZBROJENIA","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125782947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"POLISH DISCLOSED SECRET PATENTS ON TECHNOLOGY OF SOLID, HETEROGENEOUS ROCKET PROPELLANTS","authors":"M. Miszczak","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.9901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.9901","url":null,"abstract":"Results of search and analysis of Polish disclosed secret patents on manufacture technology of solid, heterogeneous rocket propellants, were presented. As a result of this search, fifteen patent descriptions of inventions were found. These inventions were applied as secret ones to the Polish Patent Office in years 1963-1997. Information pieces about their disclosure, i.e. about removing secrecy from them, were published in the announcements of the News of the Polish Patent Office issued in years 2007-2017. Main topics of these inventions related to the ways of obtainment of compositions and charges of solid, heterogeneous rocket propellants, their inhibitors (screening compositions) covering propellant charges, and use of silver thin wires and/or catalysts accelerating combustion of such type propellants.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":439139,"journal":{"name":"PROBLEMY TECHNIKI UZBROJENIA","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124921680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Faryński, Zbigniew Ziółkowski, Mirosław Wijaszka, R. Kaminski
{"title":"DISPOSABLE PIEZOELECTRIC SENSOR OF ACCELERATIONS (ACCELEROMETER) FOR DESTRUCTIVE TESTS","authors":"A. Faryński, Zbigniew Ziółkowski, Mirosław Wijaszka, R. Kaminski","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.8556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.8556","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents designing specifications and structure of cheap piezoelectric accelerometers on the range up to ca. 4000g developed and made in the AFIT (Air Force Institute of Technology) for destructive tests. Piezoelectric 455 kHz resonating plates were used for the units. Their calibration was described and sensitivity determined on 0.37 - 0.72 mV/g at accuracy < 10%.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":439139,"journal":{"name":"PROBLEMY TECHNIKI UZBROJENIA","volume":"7 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126290395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}