Conventional Munitions

Abstract

This program investigates, develops, and establishes the technical feasibility and military utility of guidance and ordnance technologies for conventional air-launched munitions. Program supports core technical competencies of fuze technology; energetic materials; damage mechanisms; munitions aerodynamics, guidance, navigation, and control; terminal seeker sciences; and munition systems effects. Technologies to be developed include blast, fragmentation, penetrating and low-collateral damage warheads, hard-target fuzing, precise terminal guidance, and high performance and insensitive explosives. Efforts in this program have been coordinated through the Department of Defense (DoD) Science and Technology (S&T) Executive Committee process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication. This program is in Budget Activity 2, Applied Research because this budget activity includes studies, investigations, and non-system specific technology efforts directed toward general military needs with a view toward developing and evaluating the feasibility and practicality of proposed solutions and determining their parameters.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: 0602602F_2_3600_PB_2017
• Change Summary Explanation: Increase in FY 2017 due to increased emphasis on technologies for distributed, low-cost seekers and weapon guidance.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aerospace Craft
• Air Force
• Airframes
• Department Of Defense
• Electromagnetic Environments
• Energetic Materials
• Explosives
• Global Positioning Systems
• Guidance
• Hypersonic Weapons
• Insensitive Explosives
• Materials
• Mechanical Properties
• Munitions
• Navigation
• Simulations
• Weapons

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering