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. CONGRESSIONAL ADD - 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 I-KEET for ship self defense and force protection with higher lethality against a broader array of threats at a greater range.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
0603609N_4_1319_PB_2012
Change Summary Explanation
Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Launched
  • Deficiencies
  • Energetic Materials
  • Energy
  • Explosives
  • Gun Propellants
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Materials
  • Munitions
  • Nato
  • Propellants
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Rocket Propellants
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Rocket Propulsion.

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