Multifunctional explosive fragmentation airburst munition
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorsVladimir Gold, Ernest L. Baker, William J. Poulos
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Abstract
An explosive fragmentation munition having a longitudinal axis which includes a cylindrical shell portion having a thickness and an interior; a rounded shell portion having a thickness and an interior, the rounded shell portion being disposed at a front end of the cylindrical shell portion; an explosive disposed in the interiors of the cylindrical shell portion and the rounded shell portion; wherein the thickness of the rounded shell portion equals the thickness of the cylindrical shell portion where the rounded shell portion joins the cylindrical shell portion, and wherein the thickness of the rounded shell portion increases in a forward direction along the longitudinal axis.
Claims19
An explosive fragmentation munition having a longitudinal axis, comprising:
- a single-layered, generally cylindrical shell portion having a thickness;
- an exposed rounded nose having a thickness, the nose being disposed at a front end of the cylindrical shell portion;
- an explosive disposed inside the cylindrical shell portion and the nose;
- wherein the nose includes a pusher liner that is made of a similar material as the cylindrical shell portion, and a multi-layered anterior liner that is disposed on an outer surface of the pusher liner;
- wherein the multi-layered anterior liner is made of a high-density material that is different from the material of the cylindrical shell portion and that adds mass to the nose, so that the pusher liner transfers momentum to the anterior liner, which, in turn, projects fragments in a forward direction;
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- wherein the anterior liner includes a plurality of holes that cause the munition to fragment into a plurality of small fragments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.