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...

homing (SALH) Non-programmable Analog autopilot Warhead: 18 lb (8 kg) shaped charge HEAT. Unable to penetrate reactive armor. Length: 64 in (163 cm) Weight:...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

to the D model's shaped-charge warhead. It completed tests in 1988. Maverick H model is an AGM-65B/D missile upgraded with a new charge-coupled device (CCD)...

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

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

weapons—is a highly specialized shaped charge. In general, it is a device composed of several explosive charges. These charges are arranged and formed with...

be activated by impacts from armor-piercing projectiles as well as shaped charge warheads. Kontakt-5 produces a stronger defensive detonation than Kontakt-1...

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...

carriers or tanks will be designed for armour penetration, by using a shaped charge that creates an explosively formed penetrator. IEDs are extremely diverse...

which states that the penetration of shaped charge jets is proportional to the square root of the shaped charge liner density (typically copper) divided...