Tunable Charge with Internal Layers

Abstract

Increasingly asymmetric conflicts within urban terrains are requiring not only a high precision weapon system but also a munition with large flexibility in performance. Today's warheads don’t have these capabilities resulting in a significantly reduced freedom of action. During the last decade TDW put a lot of effort into the research of new warhead technologies trying to change this inappropriate situation. In previous papers the very first ideas meeting these challenges were presented. In the meantime further progress was achieved leading to new warhead concepts. A radially Switchable Modes Warhead (SMW) and a Scalable Effects Warhead (SEW) were discussed. Finally two other concepts now on axially Switchable Modes Warheads were presented (see also references). In the current paper an idea on radially performing warheads already shortly discussed in a previous work was resumed and will be further pursued in this work. An internal layer was used in this study to influence the performance of the fragmenting casing thus making the warhead tunable.