Tandem bomblet
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorsLouis J. Adimari, Jerry Pentel
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Abstract
The invention discloses an improved conventional munition employing a dual omblet configuration including dual shaped charges and a design which uses a Misznay-Schardin end plate with a shaped charge. Both bomblets are separately enclosed by fragmenting warheads that are positioned in tandem. the tandem bomblet design results in a nesting arrangement of the fragmenting warhead, or sub-munition, to produce maximum packaging efficiency. A forward sub-munition of a tandem bomblet will nest within a cavity of a shaped charge of an aft sub-munition.
Claims3
An improved conventional munition, comprising:
- (a) a multiplicity of independently fuzed tandem bomblets in a stacked configuration, said tandem bomblets comprising at least an aft bomblet and a forward bomblet, each subset of bomblets including only one fuze, said fuze operatively disposed in said forward bomblet, bomblets subsequent to the first bomblet including a detonation means electrically connected to said fuze to initiate an explosive charge in subsequent bomblets, said tandem bomblets comprising a self-forging fragment plate in each said aft bomblet, each bomblet comprising an anti-materiel kill means and anti-personnel kill means, said first and second bomblets being stacked in abutment with each other and connected by integral mechanical and electrical connecting means;
- (b) launch and dispensing means within which the bomblets are carried;
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- (c) fin means for stabilizing said tandem bomblets in flight to set the target and for separating said bomblets from one another to a fixed optimal stand-off distance when expelled from said dispensing means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.