An Auxiliary Booster to Relay and Amplify the Detonation Wave from a Standard Configured Bomb Booster Charge to Insure Steady State Detonation of the Main Charge, Particularly in Relatively Insensitive Explosives.
Abstract
An auxiliary booster is used to relay and amplify the detonation wave from a standard configured bomb. An explosive system is placed in an extended fuse well to interface with the main charge. The auxiliary booster is initiated as a second, sequential event by this conventional booster charge. Energy of the conventional booster is transmitted into the auxiliary booster charge and the combined energy of the two charges is focused on the auxiliary charge's tapered metal liner. This tapered metal liner is driven through an air gap into the end of the fuse well at hypervelocity. The design of the device provides controlled packaging of energy for the generation of vaporific effects resulting in the collision of the metal liner of the auxiliary charge with the metallic end of the fuse well for enhanced detonation of the main charge. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 06, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADD012535
Entities
People
- Joseph C. Foster
Organizations
- United States Department of the Air Force