ParGARTREARVONDS divided into the following broad fiecds, (a) Rocket development including solid and liquid fuels; (b) Explosives including atomic weapon work as well as warheads for reckets and missiles; (c) Fire control systems to control the projection of weapons from aircraft; (d) Underwater ordnance including high speed water entry, underwater ballistics, propulsion, controls, and development of complete missiles; (e) Guided missiles including components, field tests, instrumentation and data agsessment; (f) Research. ' The principal lines of research conducted at NOTS are, (1) Microtime physics including shock waves, blast, electrical @ discharges and exploding wires; (2) Propellant and explosive chemistry; (3) Underwater and in air ballistics accenting high speed projection; (4) Internal ballistics of rockets including gas flow through nozzles a ‘eins4 and heat transfer; (5) Properties of propellants; (6) Atmosphere physics; (7) Analysis of air combat problems to provide development guide lines; (8) Analysis of general fire control problems; (9) components; (10) Metallurgy of special Radiation phenomena applicable to control and communi- cation problems; (11) Control mechanisms, and (12) * ORDNANCE AEROPHYSICS LABORATORY, Daingerfield, Texas f This laboratery is primarily for research into supersonic aerodynamics and jet propulsion. , ) ( Instrumentation for special research problems. mp en pnenteENS ee the alSD aa C ©. . C ‘a burner laboratory. ° - Its main facilities are a wind tunnel and = It is owned by the Navy and cperated by Convair junder the technical direction of the applied Physics Laboratory of Johns ~ FHopkins University. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge,Mass. MIT is the primary contractor to Budrd for research and development 5 _ work in connection with the air to air guided missile METEOR. Major b. E- government furnished facilities are the Supersonic Laboratoryend wind tunnel and the MIT Flight Simulator, The Flight Simulator is an analogue . , } computing device which solves autematically and continuously the equations for the motion of an aircraft in flight and also subjects the unit being tested to motions identical to those it would experience in an airframe of specified characteristics. There is other government equipment, largely i electronic. pete af ~ 55 = *APIED/DOE CoretA RC gO