Ballistic Effectiveness of Liquid Water and Solid Water (Ice) against a Shaped Charge Jet

Abstract

Six experiments were conducted to determine the ballistic effectiveness of liquid and solid water against a shaped charge jet. The water was evaluated at 500, 1000, and 1500 mm. The ice was evaluated at 545, 1090, and 1636 mm. Increasing the liquid water and solid water (ice) in increments provides decreasing returns in effectiveness against the shaped charge jet. The data suggest that liquid and solid water have similar protective capabilities against shaped charge jets in terms of elemental mass and space efficiencies. Since both the elemental mass efficiency and elemental space efficiency vary with target thickness, neither water nor ice can be assigned a single value to describe ballistic efficiency against a shaped charge jet.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1069636

Entities

People

  • John Runyeon
  • Nicholas Tee

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Efficiency
  • Energetic Materials
  • Engineering
  • Explosive Devices
  • Explosives
  • Fresh Water
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Liquids
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • National Security
  • Photographs
  • Physical Properties
  • Research Facilities
  • Residuals
  • Security
  • Shaped Charge Jets
  • Shaped Charge Warheads
  • Shaped Charges
  • Sizes (Dimensions)
  • Thickness
  • Water

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster
  • Space - Space Objects