Multiple EFP cluster module warhead

Details Multiple EFP cluster module warhead Multiple EFP cluster module warhead

1991-12-23

1993-03-02

Tudor, Harold J.

Ammunition and explosives

Shells

Focused or directed detonation

102480, 102489, 102491, F42B 1210, F42B 1218

Patent

active

051911698

ABSTRACT:
A multiple module EFP warhead comprises a tubular body having a central axis with a plurality of explosively formed penetrator modules arranged tandemly within the body along the axis. Each of the modules includes a curved, dish shaped support disk having a unique forwardly convex curvature. The support disk is focused on the axis at a point behind the module. Each module has a set of circumferentially spaced apertures therethrough, each having a central aperture axis intersecting the central axis. Each aperture supports a separate ductile metal disk therein and an explosive charge behind and against the metal disk. Each of the aperture axes forms an acute angle of inclination with the central axis which is uniquely offset from the axes of the other modules so that each EFP travels along a unique forward path.

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