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US 12,729,939 B2Granted
Warhead for interceptor
OwnerDavid Coheninventor
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Abstract
A warhead comprises an outer shell of explosive surrounding an inner core of fragmentation material.
Claims15
A warhead comprising an outer shell of explosive surrounding an inner core of fragmentation material wherein said outer shell comprises at least two rings of separately detonatable explosive units, the warhead further comprising a controller configured to select ones of said separately detonatable explosive units for detonation, thereby to provide a directed fragmentation cloud and to control said rings to explode in succession, thereby to provide a shaped fragmentation cloud.
A method of interception of a target comprising:
- approaching into proximity with said target;
- determining a direction in which a weighting of said target as detected by sensors is greater;
- causing an explosion to direct energy specifically in said direction wherein said explosion provides a directed fragmentation cloud towards said target, the method comprising directing said fragmentation cloud by selecting for detonation a predetermined set of explosive units from a full set of explosive units disposed around a fragmentation core, wherein said full set of explosive units comprises at least two rings disposed around said fragmentation core, the method comprising detonating said rings successively to shape said fragmentation cloud.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.