A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's energy. Different types of shaped charges are used for various purposes...

Nuclear shaped charges refers to nuclear weapons that focus the energy of their explosion into certain directions, as opposed to a spherical explosion...

against tanks and other armor often has a shaped charge explosive warhead. A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's...

special type of shaped charge designed to penetrate armor effectively, from a much greater standoff range than standard shaped charges, which are more...

effect of a shaped charge explosive that uses the Munroe effect to penetrate heavy armor. The warhead functions by having an explosive charge collapse a...

rocket for propulsion, it allowed for high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shaped charge warheads to be delivered against armored vehicles, machine gun nests...

during World War I, but it wasn't until World War II when more effective shaped charge anti-tank grenades were produced. AT grenades are unable to penetrate...

homing (SALH) Non-programmable Analog autopilot Warhead: 18 lb (8 kg) shaped charge HEAT. Actual penetration performance for reactive armor is classified...

shadow in the form of heart - symbolic of love. The earliest heart-shaped charges in heraldry appear in the 12th century; the hearts in the coat of arms...

armour used in protecting vehicles, especially modern tanks, against shaped charges and hardened kinetic energy penetrators. The most common type is explosive...

stopping shaped charges and kinetic projectiles. Rather, unlike RHA, Chobham is optimized against shaped charge projectiles. Effective shaped charges, particularly...

defeats the shell armor by means of a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shaped charge. During the Ukraine war of 2014- , drones and loitering munitions have...

away to the submarine, or "dash" at speeds over 29 knots. It uses a shaped charge warhead that can penetrate any known submarine hull, in particular Soviet...

fragmentation Smoke Incendiary Tear gas Practice, featuring a small flash charge and smoke signal. Inert Tohan currently (2021) offers a 40×47 mm high explosive...

example of an anti-structure tandem-charge warhead is the BROACH warhead. High-explosive anti-tank Shaped charge BAE’s Lrod Cage Armour - Defense Industry...

spigot mortar system, and projected (launched) a 2.5 pound (1.1 kg) shaped charge bomb using a cartridge in the tail of the projectile. It possessed an...

fuzes, which give it a full width attack capability. It uses a 2.5 kg shaped charge warhead capable of penetrating approximately 100 millimeters of armor...

Ukraine. RKG stands for Ruchnaya Kumulyativnaya Granata ("handheld shaped-charge grenade"). The grenade has an odd strap-like lever (or "spoon") that...

are usually used as part of cassettes and have a contact fuse and a shaped charge bomb design. ZAB - incendiary aerial bomb. Designed to destroy manpower...

emplaced munition such as a mine. Top attack munitions use either a shaped charge warhead (often now tandem warheads in order to defeat ERA), or an explosively...

in the U.S. CBU-97, can use either a shaped charge or an explosively formed penetrator. Unguided shaped-charge submunitions are designed to be effective...

soon got replaced with recoilless systems with the application of the shaped charge explosive projectiles during the Second World War. The development of...

Edward Teller, von Neumann suggested the use of high explosives in shaped charges to implode a sphere, which he showed could not only result in a faster...

hardness of the ceramics used, they offer superior resistance against shaped charges such as high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) rounds and they shatter kinetic...

II, weapons using HEAT warheads were known as having a hollow charge or shaped charge warhead. Claims for priority of invention are difficult to resolve...

grid fitted around key sections of the vehicle, which disrupts the shaped charge of the warhead by either crushing it, preventing optimal detonation...

Muzzle velocity: 905 m/s Charge: shaped charge, steel liner, Okfol (phlegmatized HMX with 5% plasticizer) ; 3V-15 detonator Charge weight: 1.62 kg Penetration:...

lining, usually copper, in the shaped charge. The copper jet provides most of the anti armor capabilities of shaped charge weapons. destruction of the airframe...

began to favor high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT), or shaped charge rounds in the 1950s. A shaped charge's penetration is not strongly dependent on the speed...

was a Swiss American inventor. He first demonstrated and exhibited shaped charge warheads internationally before the Second World War. Prior to 1939...