FOX-7 - A New Insensitive Explosive

Abstract

1,1-Diamino-2,2-dinitroethene (FOX-7) is an energetic material developed by FOI Sweden in the late 1990s. Theoretical studies have predicted that the performance of FOX-7 should exceed that of RDX. FOX-7 is also significantly less sensitive than RDX, particularly to impact and frictions stimuli. Consequently, FOX-7 is an attractive ingredient for application in high performance, IM-compliant explosive compositions. AMRL evaluation of FOX-7 has focused on the synthesis, hazards characteristion and performance studies. Aspects of these research areas, including preliminary experimental data that validates the theoretical performance values, are detailed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA399359

Entities

People

  • Ian J. Lochert

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Properties
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Energetic Materials
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • High Explosives
  • Hydroxyl Terminated Polybutadiene
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Plastic Bonded Explosives
  • Rdx
  • Spectra
  • Spectroscopy

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.