Experimental investigation of the internal ballistics of a pulsed water cannon

Measurements were made of the piston velocity and water pressure in the tube of a pulsed water cannon. The results are compared with calculations, which show that the quasistationary formulation of the problem gives sufficient accuracy.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 150–152, May–June, 1979.