Powder guns

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Our laboratory powder guns are intended in particular for stakeholders in the military sector, for whom the storage and handling of powder is not problematic. The use of powder allows a powerful release of energy within a few milliseconds, enabling our powder guns to launch relatively heavy projectiles over a short distance at impact speeds in the order of 2 to 2.7 km/s (single-stage gun), and up to 8.5 km/s (two-stage gun). We also custom-design the firing-range chamber, which is able to accommodate the most sophisticated metrology equipment.

Our aim ? Enable you to study the behaviour of your materials subjected to high-speed impacts with the best equipment on the market.

Impact speeds of up to

2.7 km/s

Single-stage gun

Impact speeds of up to

8.5 km/s

Two-stage gun

± 3 %

of repeatability

OUR SHOCK PHYSICS EQUIPMENT

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Your needs

You work for the defence industry and you need to test the resistance of your products and understand the behaviour of your armour materials—both inert and explosive-reactive—when subjected to powerful artillery impacts.

Our solution

Our powder guns allow you to carry out ballistic tests with any type of projectile (arrows, bullets, etc.) and on any type of material: concrete, steel, ceramic, composites, polymers, aluminium, glass, etc. Our team of experts will custom-design a launcher capable of meeting your most specific requirements and which can be equipped with a firing-range chamber that is custom-made to suit your needs.

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Our firing-range chambers

We provide you with a comprehensive testing solution. To do so, we design firing-range chambers of all sizes that are custom-made to meet your testing requirements.

Our firing-range chambers are designed to accommodate all of the instruments that you require, such as speed-measurement systems, strain gauges, X-ray equipment, high-speed cameras…

REDUCED COSTS

Our launchers are robust, requiring only minimal maintenance. They also offer a high firing rate, allowing you to reduce the overall cost of your test campaigns.

RELIABILITY

Our guns are designed with high-quality materials and are mounted on a perfectly stable frame. This allows a high repeatability rate to be achieved within a given firing campaign. The triggering process is entirely safe for the operators.

EASE OF USE

Choose between manual triggering or fully-automated triggering with a touchscreen. Your launcher will be user-friendly whichever you choose.

FIRING-PARAMETER PREDICTION MODULE

Our experts have designed CESAR, an exclusive prediction software package that is specifically calibrated for your launcher. Within a few seconds, it will provide you with the necessary firing parameters for your test.

FULL TRAINING

We provide you with both theoretical and practical training on the use of your launcher, so that you can get the very most out of it.

SUPPORT

We remain entirely at your disposal and will provide you with any support you require for your launcher. We can come out to you anywhere in the world in order to carry out necessary maintenance work.

Why Thiot Ingenierie?

OUR EXPERIENCE

Our company has now been designing test equipment for our clients in the military, aeronautics, aerospace and research sectors for nearly 30 years. We are currently world leader in the field of impact testing, ballistic testing and fast dynamics.

WE PUT OURSELVES IN YOUR SHOES

As well as designing launchers, we also have our own test laboratory and so have on-hands experience of the situations that you experience. We are always on the lookout for development opportunities and constantly innovate to provide you with the best-performing test equipment on the market.

OUR TEAMS

Our company employs 30 of France's leading experts (designers, technicians, engineers and scientists). Our excellent knowledge of our clients' spheres of activity allows us to respond to each of their requests with an effective and tailor-made solution.