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US 3,938,438 AGranted
Pressure-armed explosive apparatus
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsMatthew E. Anderson, Stephen L. Redmond, John W. Horky, Leo V. Krolak
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Abstract
An air droppable sealed warhead cannister capable of housing a plurality of omblets, each bomblet having a pressure-sensitive fuze capable of being controlled by the presence and absence of a predetermined pressure in the cannister.
Claims5
An air-droppable sealed warhead cannister containing a plurality of bomblets each having a pressure sensitive explosive fuze provided with a fluid inlet port:
- means including a power source connected to the cannister for pressurizing said cannister in flight with a fluid at a predetermined event by admitting fluid pressure through said port to activate the fuzes to commit-to-arm condition;
- means for fragmenting said cannister at a second predetermined event to disperse said bomblets into the atmosphere, and exhaust said pressure in the fuze to the atmosphere through said inlet port;
- means for advancing the fuzes to an armed position when said pressure is exhausted;
- whereby all of said fuzes can be committed-to-arm simultaneously after the cannister has reached a safe distance from the launching platform, the fuzes being advanced to armed conditions when said cannister is fragmented and the bomblets dispersed.
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