Indirect Fire and Fuze Technology
Abstract
The Indirect Fire and Fuze Technology project includes product improvement development efforts to upgrade indirect fire weapon systems and munitions that have already been fielded and/or are in production. Indirect Fire Weapons and Munitions Product Improvement Projects include improved target engagement, increased reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety, standardization and interoperability with weapons and munitions of Allied Nations, defense exportability features, reduction of failure mechanisms, and supply chain risk through introduction of new and alternative technology and materiel solutions, improvement of manufacturing methods and their associated production and life cycle support processes, new capabilities in response to the evolving and emerging threats and countermeasures, and reduction/elimination of potential environmental and health risks associated with these products. This supports the identification, study, analysis, and development of fuzing technologies and Safe & Arm (S&A) devices in production and in the field. This project will implement technologies into fuzing systems to preclude obsolescence, maximize standardization, enhance performance, and improve the safety and exportability of existing munitions. The project addresses two major areas: (1) analysis and (2) block upgrades. Analysis efforts will identify second sources for fuzing systems that may reduce costs by providing competition, and maintain production when sources or parts are no longer available. It will also allow for the performance enhancement of current ammunition items by conducting studies of major fuze components to detect and identify latent defects. The second major area is block upgrades, which will identify and perform studies on improvements to fuzes, increase commonality of fuze components and requirements. Block upgrades will enable the introduction of the latest technologies into fuzing, keep the fuzing design current to avoid obsolescence issues, and add capabilities. FY 2019 will support modeling and simulation on medium caliber S&A modifications, will evaluate medium caliber prototype modifications against performance requirements, will conduct studies on mortar fuze design architecture with the latest Fuze safety guidelines to preclude component obsolescence, will conduct studies on hand grenade fuze to reduce the number of critical defects that will improve producibility and increase safety, will conduct engineering tests to prove-out electronic transceiver replacement prototypes for indirect fire and direct fire proximity fuzes, will conduct studies on artillery fuze electronic safe and arm designs for low cost safe and arm performance enhancements, and will evaluate optimized impact switch prototypes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- ER5_0607131A_7_2040_PB_2019
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