Conventional Munitions

Abstract

Insensitive Munitions Advanced Development (IMAD) (Project 0363) - Most Navy munitions react violently when exposed to unplanned stimuli such as fire, shock and bullet or fragment impact, thus presenting a great hazard to ships, aircraft and personnel. This program will provide, validate and transition technology to all new weapon developments and priority weapon systems and enable production of munitions insensitive to these stimuli with no reduction in combat performance. IMAD is the Navy's focused effort on propellants, propulsion units, explosives, warheads, fuses and pyrotechnics to reduce the severity of cook-off and bullet/fragment impact reactions, minimizing the probability for sympathetic detonation, both in normal storage and in use, increasing ship and platform survivability and satisfying performance and readiness requirements. Conventional Fuzed Warhead Package (Project 1821) - The Navy requires improved lethality of air and surface launched ordnance to defeat advanced threats. This is the only Navy 6.3B RDT&E program that addresses improvements in warhead and fuze technology to meet this requirement. This program is a significant vehicle for orderly planning, and timely and effective transition of Navy 6.2 and 6.3A investments to Engineering and Manufacturing Development (E&MD) phase missile/weapon systems. This program addresses increased lethality against current and emerging threats, and is responsive to all mission areas anti-air, strike, defense suppression, theater defense and ship defense and supports development of complete ordnance sections. The current on-going projects address significant technology advancements for missile systems by developing mature physical concepts to enhance anti-air kill probability, advanced ordnance with augmented overland cruise missile defense and theater ballistic missile defense capabilities, and advanced seeker technology and development and incorporation of Software Guidance Integrated Fuzing (S/W GIF). The program supports the full spectrum of missile advanced development and technology improvements and in future years will continue to provide the vehicle to address emergent requirements by transitioning mature development efforts into weapon systems with minimal technical and financial risk. Non-Nuclear Expendable Ordnance (NNEO) (Project 2299) - This item addresses improvements to Navy surface launched (2T) NNEO. Improved Kinetic Energy Cargo Round (Project 10C120) - To design, develop, and demonstrate technologies and components for a kinetic energy payload for a 5-inch round. The Navy I-KEET program projectile features a forward expulsion mechanism to expel a multi-component kinetic energy payload with significantly increased on-target energy and expanded lethality footprint relative to its predecessor. The I-KEET round, considered to be a product-improved version of the MK182 KE-ET for ship self defense and force protection with higher lethality against a broader array of threats at a greater range.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: 0603609N_4_1319_PB_2011
• Change Summary Explanation: Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable. FY11 from previous President's Budget is shown as zero because no FY11-15 data was presented in President's Budget 2010.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Ammunition
• Energetic Materials
• Explosives
• Gun Propellants
• High Explosives
• Insensitive Explosives
• Kinetic Energy
• Munitions
• Nato
• Plastic Bonded Explosives
• Projectiles
• Propellants
• Propulsion Systems
• Shaped Charge Warheads
• Small Arms Ammunition
• Test And Evaluation
• Weapon Systems

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Missile Defense Systems.
• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering