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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 2, pp. 145–150, March–April, 1989.
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Anisimov, A.G., Bashkatov, Y.L. & Shvetsov, G.A. Structure and dynamics of a plasma piston in rail-gun accelerators for solid objects. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 30, 303–308 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00852181
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