Mines Explosives and Ballistics Research and Development provides services and technical consulting for private, commercial, and government-related industries and research. Mines offers world-class ballistics and firearms research and testing, rapid experimentation, test-setup, and high research throughput for product evaluation and development for governmental and industrial partners.
Ballistics Research & Development Capabilities & Overview
- Development of firearm(s) testing standards and protocols
- Indoor / outdoor / fully remote-capable firing ranges
- Underground mining facilities facilitate explosives (100+ lbs) and small caliber (.50) to large caliber (30mm+) testing
- High-fidelity dynamic testing of armor / barriers
- DAQ
- Machine vision
- Photon Doppler Velocimetry
- Thermal imaging
- Materials testing
- Rapid prototyping Additive Manufacturing Lab
UMPIRE (Universal Machine-Gun Performance Instrument for Repeatable Evaluations)
- Development of universal evaluation standards for legacy and next-gen machine guns for US Army.
- Recoil measurement and mitigation
- Muzzle interaction / device integration
- Accuracy / electronic targeting
- Thermal / pressure performance
Energy Absorption and Recoil Mitigation in Hunting Rifles
- Development of novel recoil-mitigating materials
- Fundamental research based around energy-absorbing materials
- Development of engineered hunting chassis
- State-of-the-art machine learning models for iterative design