Talk:Gun chronograph

Outline of work needed here

Sorry to just gripe and not do the work, but it might help to understand how empty this is. Summary off the top of my head:

Ballistic pendulums were used up through the 70s at least.

Modern chronographs can be:

• Light beam sensors, as described (ish) in the article. Be nice to find the history of these, and I suspect someone has written it up.
• Acoustic (sonar). These are currently mostly used for paintball and similar sports.
• Radar. I think some consumer units, but heavily used by testing laboratories for range and precision. Microwave frequencies rule.
• LADAR/LIDAR. I have only seen them used for shot detection for counter-sniper/counter-battery work, but the principle is the same and they may be used for pure analysis also.
• X-Ray. Mostly for very high speed analysis of highly energetic events, such as armor piercing ammunition, explosive jet formation and shrapnel analysis.

Also, there might be some mention of the value of measuring speed. Some for development of projectiles and firearms, but they are routinely used in shooting sports to validate the firearm/ammunition meets basic specifications (to avoid cheating with excessively low-recoiling guns) and for paintball/airsoft to preserve safety. Shoobe01 (talk) 16:21, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

I can try to do some more research and add to this article with what you mentioned. I may be a bit slow, but can certainly try.

Me871 (talk) 21:30, 17 November 2023 (UTC)