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Ballistic Aeromechanically Stable Sabot (BASS) Publications and Presentations

Theses and Dissertations

Schumacher, L. MS Thesis 2016 (not ITAR restricted)

Schumacher, L. Open Dissertation Presentation 2020 (not ITAR restricted)

Schumacher, L. Closed Dissertation 2020 (ITAR restricted, password protected)

AIAA Papers & Journal Articles

2020 SciTech Guided Air-to-Air AIAA-2020-1959

2020 SciTech Guided Air-to-Ground AIAA-2020-1960

2021 Munitions Micro Actuators, 10, 265.

2022 SciTech Flight Safe Discarding Sabot History AIAA-2022-2228

2022 SciTech New Attack Aircraft & Tactics AIAA-2022-0544

2023 SciTech Gunnery Gap AIAA-2023-2602

2023 SciTech Gunnery Gap AIAA-2023-2246

Conference Presentations

2019_NDIA Fuze Conference_Guided Munitions paper 21775

2019_NDIA Fuze Conference_Flight Control Actuators paper 21779

2021_NDIA Fuze Conference_Flight Safe Aerial Gunnery Rounds Part I paper 23607

2021_NDIA Fuze Conference_Flight Safe Aerial Gunnery Rounds Part II paper 23608

2022_NDIA Future Forces Conference Hypersonic Aerial Gunnery paper 24706

2022_NDIA Future Forces Conference Outgunning the A-10 paper 24707

2022  NDIA Fuze Conference Historical Overview of Aerial Ammunition Development paper 24200

2022  NDIA Fuze Conference Flight Safe Discarding Sabot Ammunition paper 24201

Patent Applications

2019 MASS Patent Application 26 April 2019

2020 MASS PCT Filing 29 October 2020

Light Attack Aircraft Design Reports

2021 AIAA Light Attack Competition Report with BASS Aerial Gunnery Swift Dragoon

2021 AIAA Light Attack Competition Report with BASS Aerial Gunnery Chimera

Ballistic Shot Videos (password protected)

Video 1 Sabot Stability Demonstration

Video 2 Shot1 into Gel 50 fps

Video 3 Shot2 into Gel 50 fps

Video 4 Shot3 into Gel 2158 fps

Video 5 Shot4 into Gel 2158 fps

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