ARA 2025: 74th Meeting of the ARA in Gramat, France
Santa Cruz, CA – The ARA 2025 74th Aeroballistic Range Association Meeting is hosted by Thiot Ingenierie & CEA Gramat and meets September 28th to October 3rd, 2025 in Gramat, Lot, France.
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About ARA
Since its inception in 1961, the ARA (originally, the Aeroballistic Range Association) has served as a meeting point for facilities engaged in research and development using guns and related launchers. The ARA annual meetings are attended by an international group of scientists and engineers from government, academia, and industry involved in various aspects of maintaining, upgrading, and utilizing launcher technology for a variety of research applications, mostly involving defense or aerospace applications. The meeting is primarily composed of technical talks presented by the ARA members.
Information about facility design, instrumentation development and range operations is shared among the membership through informal papers presented at annual meetings held at member facilities.
Topics covered at the annual meeting include:
- ballistic range operation
- instrumentation for studying dynamic mechanical events
- exterior and terminal ballistics research technology
- development of research launchers
- evaluation of range accidents
- impact mechanics and shock physics research technology
- evaluation of high speed vehicle flight characteristics
- armor development technology
- non-classical applications of gun-related testing
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