Application of Airbag Technology for Vehicle Protection

Abstract

The Warheads Group at the U.S. Army ARDEC developed a novel non-energetic RPG protection munition based on automotive airbag technology. This munition dispenses an airbag to impact an RPG causing it to go high order at long standoff causing the shaped charge jet to be ineffective. There are many advantages for this munition, primarily there are no explosions and no high energy fragments dispersed, therefore, no fratricide issues. Dynamic testing has demonstrated that this technology is capable of meeting these requirements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA481648

Entities

People

  • Peter Rottinger
  • Richard Fong
  • Steve Tang
  • William Ng

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Deflection
  • Energetic Materials
  • Energy
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • High Energy
  • Munitions
  • Propellants
  • Rocket Propelled Grenades
  • Shaped Charge Jets
  • Shaped Charges
  • Standoff
  • Vehicles
  • Weapons

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  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Software Engineering