Army Research Uncovers Law-Like Progression of Weapons Technologies (IMAGE)

U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Army Research Uncovers Law-Like Progression of Weapons Technologies

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A composite characteristic -- weighted sum of logarithms of military systems' mass, speed, effective range, crew, rate of fire and projectile's kinetic energy -- falls approximately on the same curve for broad range of system types. This occurs in spite of great differences in the systems' physical scale and underlying technologies, for over seven centuries.

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