. Dahlgren. Dahlgren Laboratory. Naval Guns 139. Mr. Carl H. Wingo, Jr., has had a long-standing excellent relation with naval gunnery at the Dahlgren Laboratory. What was the scientific environment like at that time regarding proof and testing of guns and ammunition'? Well, scientifically, testing has really come into its own in R&D, and proof and testing is a completely different kind of testing. I wouldn't even describe proof and testing in the same scientific terms as I would R&D. Very little has changed here in the approach to proof and testing over the past several decades, and t
. Dahlgren. Dahlgren Laboratory. Naval Guns 139. Mr. Carl H. Wingo, Jr., has had a long-standing excellent relation with naval gunnery at the Dahlgren Laboratory. What was the scientific environment like at that time regarding proof and testing of guns and ammunition'? Well, scientifically, testing has really come into its own in R&D, and proof and testing is a completely different kind of testing. I wouldn't even describe proof and testing in the same scientific terms as I would R&D. Very little has changed here in the approach to proof and testing over the past several decades, and the scientific requirements in proof and testing are not very great. I've never known, for example, a "lot" of ammunition to be rejected here. So that kind of says very little for the actual testing itself. As long as it stays together, about the only requirement is for it to hit the ground or the water somewhere. However, in the last 10 years, remarkable things have happened at this Station in R&D testing—things that I don't think are recognized very widely, probably not even in our own house. We probably have the capability to do things here in the instrumentation and testing of ammunition in R&D that can't be done anywhere else in the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McCollum, Kenneth G. Dahlgren, Va. : Naval Surface Weapons Center
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