MEMS-Based Architecture to Improve Submunition Fuze Safety and Reliability

Abstract

One of the urgent needs in the current and future battlefield is to dramatically improve the reliability and safety of submunition grenades. The ARDEC Fuze Division is developing a MEMS-based safety and arming architecture for submunition fuzes that will so significantly improve the munition's primary reliability that the need for self-destruct (SD) technology will be eliminated. At the same time the safety requirement for transport aboard Navy warships will be met by providing each submunition with a dual-safe safety and arming (S&A) device that must sense a proper launch and expulsion environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA432721

Entities

People

  • C. H. Robinson
  • M. R. Gelak
  • R. H. Wood
  • T. Q. Hoang

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Flow
  • Air Power
  • Arming Devices
  • Battlefields
  • Electronics
  • Environment
  • Expulsion
  • Flow
  • Information Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Munitions
  • Navy
  • Reliability
  • Ships
  • Submunitions
  • Transport Ships

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering