Expendable Dearmer Evaluation

Abstract

The Ordnance Missile, Munitions Center and School (OMMC&S) at Huntsville, AL, asked the Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) to study the problem of developing an expendable dearmer. Included in this study was the evaluation of a device that had been developed by a contractor, the AMETEK company, in cooperation with the OMMC&S. This device purported to be an expendable dearmer, having all the required characteristics. This report details the experiments that were run to compare the performance of this device with that of the US Army MK 2 Mod O Dearmer. The performance of the AMETEK device was inferior to that of the MK 2 Dearmer, but the AMETEK Device is operationally more flexible in that it can use bulleted rounds as well as blank rounds. Only blank rounds were used in this evaluation. Keywords: Shaped charge devices; Cylinders.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA210901

Entities

People

  • Alfred L. Bines
  • Lawrence J. Van De Kieft

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Contractors
  • Cooperation
  • Diagrams
  • Expendable
  • Explosive Devices
  • Explosive Ordnance Disposal
  • Explosives
  • Military Research
  • Munitions
  • Projectiles
  • Schematic Diagrams
  • Shaped Charges
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapons
  • X Rays

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  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
  • Missile Defense Systems.