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US 7,654,458 B1Granted
Dual purpose munition
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorsVictor N. Kokodis, Arnold S. Klein
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Abstract
A dual purpose munition includes a housing; a shaped warhead disposed in a front interior of the housing; a vertically orienting explosive disposed on a front end of the housing; a safe and arm device explosively connected to the shaped warhead for arming and detonating the shaped warhead; a dual sensor circuit comprising an E-field sensor board, a B-field sensor board and a processor board; and a power source connected to the dual sensor circuit and the safe and arm device.
Claims12
A munition, comprising:
- a housing;
- a shaped warhead disposed in a front interior of the housing;
- a vertically orienting explosive disposed on a front end of the housing;
- a safe and arm device explosively connected to the shaped warhead for arming and detonating the shaped warhead;
- a dual sensor circuit comprising an E-field sensor board, a B-field sensor board and a processor board;
- and
- a power source connected to the dual sensor circuit and the safe and arm device;
- wherein the processor combines signals from the E-field and B-field sensor boards to determine whether a target is personnel or a vehicle and, if the target is personnel, the safe and arm device initiates the vertically orienting explosive and then initiates the shaped warhead and further wherein, if the target is a vehicle, the processor determines from the B-field sensor board when the vehicle is above the munition and then the safe and arm device initiates the vertically orienting explosive and initiates the shaped warhead.
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A munition having a housing;
- a shaped warhead disposed in a front interior of the housing;
- a vertically orienting explosive disposed on a front end of the housing;
- a safe and arm device explosively connected to the shaped warhead for arming and detonating the shaped warhead;
- a dual sensor circuit comprising an E-field sensor board, a B-field sensor board and a processor board;
- and a power source connected to the dual sensor circuit and the safe and arm device;
- wherein the processor combines signals from the E-field and B-field sensor boards to determine whether a target is personnel or a vehicle and, if the target is personnel, the safe and arm device initiates the vertically orienting explosive and then initiates the shaped warhead and further wherein, if the target is a vehicle, the processor determines from the B-field sensor board when the vehicle is above the munition and then the safe and arm device initiates the vertically orienting explosive and initiates the shaped warhead by a method of:
- arming the shaped warhead;
- detecting a target using the dual sensor circuit;
- if the detected target is a person, vertically orienting the munition and detonating the shaped warhead;
- and
- if the detected target is a vehicle, monitoring a B-field signal to determine when the vehicle is above the munition and, when the vehicle is above the munition, vertically orienting the munition and detonating the shaped warhead.
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