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...
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Nuclear shaped charges refers to nuclear weapons that focus the energy of their explosion into certain directions, as opposed to a spherical explosion...
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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...
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Explosively formed penetrator (redirect from Platter charge)
special type of shaped charge designed to penetrate armor effectively, from a much greater standoff range than standard shaped charges, which are more...
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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...
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Bazooka (section Shaped charge development)
rocket for propulsion, it allowed for high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shaped charge warheads to be delivered against armored vehicles, machine gun nests...
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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:...
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Heart symbol (redirect from Heart-shaped)
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...
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Anti-tank warfare (section Rockets and shaped charges)
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...
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stopping shaped charges and kinetic projectiles. Rather, unlike RHA, Chobham is optimized against shaped charge projectiles. Effective shaped charges, particularly...
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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...
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armour used in protecting vehicles, especially modern tanks, against shaped charges and hardened kinetic energy penetrators. The most common type is explosive...
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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...
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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...
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Ukraine. RKG stands for Ruchnaya Kumulyativnaya Granata ("handheld shaped-charge grenade"). The grenade has an odd strap-like lever (or "spoon") that...
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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...
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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...
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soon got replaced with recoilless systems with the application of the shaped charge explosive projectiles during the Second World War. The development of...
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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...
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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...
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hardness of the ceramics used, they offer superior resistance against shaped charges such as high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) rounds and they shatter kinetic...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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Henry Mohaupt (section Shaped charges for military use)
was a Swiss American inventor. He first demonstrated and exhibited shaped charge warheads internationally before the Second World War. Prior to 1939...
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grid fitted around key sections of the vehicle, which disrupts the shaped charge of the warhead by either crushing it, preventing optimal detonation...
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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...
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be activated by impacts from armor-piercing projectiles as well as shaped charge warheads. Kontakt-5 produces a stronger defensive detonation than Kontakt-1...
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carriers or tanks will be designed for armour penetration, by using a shaped charge that creates an explosively formed penetrator. IEDs are extremely diverse...
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which states that the penetration of shaped charge jets is proportional to the square root of the shaped charge liner density (typically copper) divided...
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