Ballistic Effectiveness of Water against a Shaped Charge Jet

Abstract

Three experiments were conducted to determine the ballistic effectiveness of water against a shaped charge jet. Water depths of 500, 1000 and 1500 mm were evaluated. The data suggest that water cannot be assigned one value to describe its ballistic efficiency against a shaped charge jet. Calculations show that 500 mm of water had an elemental mass efficiency (em) = 3.9, 1000 mm of water had an em = 2.6, and 1500 mm of water had an em = 1.8.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1064509

Entities

People

  • John Runyeon

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Efficiency
  • Explosive Devices
  • Fresh Water
  • Information Operations
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Photographs
  • Residuals
  • Rolled Homogeneous Armor
  • Shaped Charge Jets
  • Shaped Charge Warheads
  • Shaped Charges
  • Terminal Ballistics
  • Water

Readers

  • Agricultural Chemistry/Soil Science
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Rocket Propulsion.