Distribution and grounding issues involved in naval ship integration of an electric gun system

The authors review the options available for industrial AC and DC systems, and how portions of these standards have been applied in developing the ground architecture for a shipboard electrothermal chemical gun system. They review shipboard practices and philosophy for low-voltage systems and project how this philosophy will lead to the selection of a grounding architecture for an electric gun system. The shipboard standards for routing dedicated, redundant, and survival distribution systems are also reviewed