Conventional Munitions

Abstract

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. The Insensitive Munitions Advanced Development (IMAD) 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. Insensitive Munitions (IM) 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, 2018
• Source ID: 0603609N_4_1319_PB_2018
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Containers
• Department Of Defense
• Energetic Materials
• Explosives
• Gun Propellants
• Insensitive Explosives
• Materials
• Munitions
• Nato
• Propellants
• Propulsion Systems
• Rocket Engines
• Rocket Propellants
• Solid Propellants
• Test And Evaluation
• Weapon Systems
• Weapons

Readers

• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering