COMBINED EFFECTS WARHEAD DEVELOPMENT
The warhead design engineers at the U.S. Army armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) are developing a novel explosively formed penetrator (EFP) warhead with enhanced capabilities. Recent conflicts have shown that lightly armored and non-armored targets can be as high a priority to the Warfighters as heavy armored ones. A combined effects warhead (CEW) can simultaneously form a single explosively formed penetrator (SEFP) for medium and heavy armored targets and multiple explosively formed penetrators (MEFPs) that will be effective against light materiel and lightly armored targets. There are considerable challenges to overcome when designing a CEW that forms two different types of EFPs. To properly form the most effective penetrators, the configuration of both the SEFP and the MEFP parts of the liner requires precision tuning of the design and fabriation. Advances in hydrocode modeling and precision EFP liner manufacturing process have made small CEW designs possible.
Richard Fong Matthew Comstock Henry Hsieh Frank LoPresti William Ng
U.S. Army Armament Research. Development and Engineering Center, DAR-MEE-W, Building 3022, Picatinny, NJ, 07806, USA
国际会议
25th International Symposium on Ballistics(第25届国际弹道会议)
北京
英文
874-879
2010-05-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）