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.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2013
• Source ID: 0603609N_4_1319_PB_2013
• Change Summary Explanation: Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Human Systems
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Launched
• Deficiencies
• Energetic Materials
• Explosives
• Financial Management
• Insensitive Explosives
• Materials
• Munitions
• Nato
• Program Management
• Propellants
• Propulsion Systems
• Prototypes
• Rocket Propellants
• Test And Evaluation
• Weapon Systems
• Weapons

Readers

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