Countermine dart system and method

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2008-05-08

2010-12-28

Lee, Benjamin P (Department: 3641)

Ammunition and explosives

Mines

Counter measure

C102S489000, C089S001130

Reexamination Certificate

active

07856928

ABSTRACT:
An anti-mine dart includes a body containing an explosive payload and having a flyer-plate port. The dart is operable responsive to the payload being detonated to propel through the flyer-plate port a flyer plate having sufficient energy to detonate an explosive material surrounding the dart. The darts may include a plurality of explosive payloads, flyer-plate ports and flyer plates. The darts may be formed in a stack arrangement within a missile such that the flyer-plate port of each dart is not aligned with the flyer-plate ports of any of the adjacent darts in the stack arrangement. The darts may contain a simplified safe-and-arm mechanism or no safe-and-arm mechanism at all.

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