Patent Application
20240219160
This invention relates to bombs, ordnance shells, projectiles, warheads, mines, torpedoes.
The prototype of this invention is «High-explosive fragmentation shell», which is described in a patent on http://patents.google.com/patent/RU2413921 C1/en The prototype comprises detonating fuse, main charge of high-energy explosive substance with reduced speed of detonation and additional charge of high-capacity explosive substance with high speed of detonation. Additional charge is arranged in the form of extended cord charges in amount of N≥4, evenly arranged on inner surface of ammunition vessel along its axis.
Highly sensitive additional charges of high-capacity explosive substance cause more vulnerability of the shell to shocks, detonation, and heat during storage.
The other prototype of this invention is «Invisible projectile», which is described in a patent on the website http://patents.google.com/patent/RU2625056C1/en
The projectile contains a body, detonator and explosive. The body is made of ceramics, around which concentric layers of stretched parallel underlying fibers are wound. The body can be made from quartz, nitride or oxide ceramic materials and glass or basalt fibers can be used.
The projectile body has an overly large mass and a large volume of walls.
Storage of implosive munitions without compressive charges minimizes the munitions' vulnerability to shocks, detonation, and heat.
Pre-starting the implosion process before the required moment of explosion maximizes the explosion energy release, and the high-explosive and brisant effects.
Implosive munitions have high-power and cheap bursting charges, and also light, thin-walled, and radar-invisible bodies.
The scheme of an implosive device is shown in
Any known implosive device contains a body 1, one or several fuses 4, a main charge 3, lateral charges 5 and 6, and compressive charges 2.
Compressive charges 2 surround the main charge 3.
During a normal implosion of the device, the detonation wave propagates from the fuse 4 along the lateral charge 5 and pass to the compressive charges 2.
As a result of the detonation of compressive charges 2, the shock waves of their explosions compress, heat, and detonate the main charge 3 in the process of implosion.
The ubiquitous Explosive detonation requires the use of a very strong explosive device body. Half of the explosion energy is spent on the destruction of the body. The body large mass reduces explosive amount in the device, and also reduces the possible range and increases the cost of delivering the device to the target.
On the contrary, Implosion can be realized in a light and thin-walled body made of radar-invisible materials—ceramics, composites, polymers.
Therefore, the mass and size, and the cost of delivery of implosive munitions to targets will be smaller, and the mass of explosives and the ranges to targets will be greater.
Radar-invisible implosive devices can be installed in missiles, drones, glide bombs, mines made from radar-invisible materials.
The electronic systems of the munitions will be divided into small blocks, on which the radar beams are diffracted and not reflected, and which will be placed in the masses of the main bursting charges and in the fuel tanks of the carriers.
Such munitions will be invisible to radars and sensors.
The main charge of an implosive device consists of substances with little sensitivity to external impacts, detonation and heat, and with a low detonation velocity.
The lateral and compressive charges consist of substances with great sensitivity to external impacts, detonation and heat, and with a high detonation velocity.
Thus, the lateral and compressive charges determine, in general, the vulnerability of the entire device to external impacts, detonation, and heat.
Therefore, known implosive devices are highly vulnerable to these factors.
This invention creates constructive possibilities to install the lateral charge 5 and compressive charges 2 in the device when equipping the device before using it.
This makes it possible to store and transport the device without sensitive lateral and compressive charges.
Such storage and transportation minimize the device's vulnerability to external impacts, detonation, and heat.
In the process of implosion, first of all, explosions of compressive charges compress and heat the main charge.
Only after that, shock waves from lateral charges act on the main charge.
Therefore, every known implosive device contains the special chamber 7 between the lateral charge and the main charge.
The chamber slows down the shock wave from the lateral charge and delay its effects on the main charge.
This invention proposes to use the space of slowdown chamber 7 and place some parts of the device in the chamber, for example, electronic components and/or shrapnel, combustible, incendiary or oxidative substances.
This makes it possible to reduce the overall dimensions of the device and/or increase its splinter, thermobaric or incendiary action.
The implosive detonation occurs after compression and heating of the main charge.
At the moment of collision of the implosive device with an obstacle (target), if compression and heating of the main charge have not yet occurred, the impact destroys the device and disrupts the process of its implosion.
Explosions of detonators start detonations of the lateral and compressive charges. However, due to the device's destruction, the shock waves of the compressive charges do not compress the main charge sufficiently.
Therefore, the main charge does not explode to the full extent, does not release its potential energy, and does not create brisant and high-explosive effects.
Thus, the device control system must turn on the fuses before the required moment of explosion.
The pre-activation time of the fuses must be equal to the sum of times of the lateral and compressive charges' detonations and the time of compression of the main charge.
This time depends on the structural properties of the device—substances of charges, shapes and sizes of the device and its parts, and it is usually 1-2 milliseconds.
The implosion of charges consisting of mixtures of oxidizers and fuels includes processes of evaporation and mixing of vapors of mixture components.
This invention provides for the start of the device implosion process before the required moment of explosion ahead for the duration of the implosion processes. This makes it possible to realize the implosion processes completely. As a result, the device explosion releases maximum energy.
This invention provides for the pumping-in of liquid or gaseous substances of the compressive charges 2 and lateral charges 5 and 6 into the implosive device carried by an aircraft or rocket during the carrier flight.
Before pumping compressive and lateral charges during the carrier flight, this device is, in principle, unable to explode.
The possibility of an explosion of this device occurs only when the carrier approaches the target.
Civilian industries have abandoned military explosives and use cheap and energy-rich explosive mixtures of oxidizers and fuels—ammonium nitrates and perchlorates, nitrogen tetroxide, fuels, bitumen, aluminum hydrides, and others.
During explosions, such mixtures release three times more energy than TNT, and twice as much as hexogen.
Such mixtures have low sensitivities to detonation and heat.
These mixtures are not stored in warehouses and are made from explosion-proof components before use.
These explosive mixtures detonate weakly in explosive devices and detonate strongly in implosive devices.
The use of implosive munitions makes it possible to widely use high-power and cheap explosive mixtures.
This makes it possible not to transport munitions over long distances and not to store them in large quantities.
Blast-proof components of explosive mixtures will be transported and stored.
Implosive mixtures will be produced from these components in small mobile factories located near places of their application, using simple, cheap, and proven technologies. Such mobile productions will be located on ships, at airfields, and at front-line artillery and missile bases and will produce several daily munitions reserves.
The main charge 3 substance is a 3:1 mixture of ammonium perchlorate and polyethylene or asphalt.
The compressive charges 2 are in the form of rods that are placed in the channels in the main charge 3.
These rods are stored separately from the shell.
The substance of the compressive charges 2 and the lateral charges 5 and 6 is a mixture of trotyl and cyclonite in the ratio of 1:1.
On the periphery of the main charge, the channels for the compressive charges are located parallel to the shell's axis near its wall 1.
Space 7, in which the shock wave from first lateral charge 5 to the main charge 3 slows down, is filled with the shell's electronics and napalm.
The shell's fairing 8 contains fuse 4, first lateral charge 5, and electronic units 7, and it is stored separately from the shell body.
When equipping the shell for use, the compressive charge rods 2 are inserted into the channels in the main charge 3, and the fairing 8 is attached to the shell's body 1.
When the shell approaches the target, the control system turns on the fuse 4 before the shell arrives at the target for a time sufficient for the implosion to occur, typically about 1 millisecond.
From the fuse, the detonation wave propagates along the first lateral charge 5 to the compressive charges 2.
In the compressive charges, detonation waves propagate and reach the second lateral charge 6 which explodes.
Shock waves from the compressive charges 2 compress and heat the peripheral part of the main charge 3.
This part of the main charge detonates and causes the implosion of the entire main charge 3.
The shock wave from the lateral charge 5 slows down in delay space 7, and hits the main charge butt end.
The shell explodes.
The design of the bomb and warhead is basically the same as the design of the artillery shell described in the first example.
The substance of the compressive charges 2 and the lateral charges 5 and 6 is a liquid mixture of nitrogen tetroxide and kerosene in the ratio of 4:1.
When equipping the bomb/warhead for use or during a carrier flight, a mixture of nitrogen tetroxide and kerosene is poured into the compressive charges channels 2 and the lateral charges chambers 5 and 6.
The main charge 3 substance is a mixture of nitrogen tetroxide and kerosene in a ratio of 2:1.
The substance of the compressive charges 2 and the lateral charges 5 and 6 is a mixture of nitrogen tetroxide and kerosene in a ratio of 4:1.
Tubes (channels) of the compressive charges 2 are located on the inner side of the projectile body 1, parallel to the projectile axis, and are connected to chambers of the lateral charges 5 and 6.
When preparing the projectile for use, a mixture of nitrogen tetroxide and kerosene in a ratio of 2:1 is poured into the projectile body, and a mixture of nitrogen tetroxide and kerosene in a ratio of 4:1 is poured into the channels of the compressive charges 2 and into the chambers of the lateral charges 5 and 6.
During the explosion of the projectile, the unoxidized part of the kerosene is sprayed into the air, detonates, and creates a thermobaric effect.
The device consists of the body 1, the compressive charges 2, the main charge 3, the fuses 4, the lateral charges 5, the slowdown chambers 6.
The main charge substance 3 is a mixture of ammonium perchlorate, polyethylene, and aluminum hydride in the ratio of 5:1:1.
The slowdown chambers 6 are filled with the torpedo (mine) electronic units, which are filled up with a combustible sealant, for example, paraffin.
The device consists of the body 1, the compressive charge 2, the main charge 3, the tail fuze 4, the tail charge 5, the slowdown chamber 6.
The main charge substance 3 is a mixture of ammonium perchlorate and polyethylene or asphalt in the ratio of 3:1.
The slowdown chamber 6 is filled with the warhead electronic units.
The middle part of the body contains longitudinal rods 7.
These rods carry axial loads and make it possible to have a less thick body wall.
Instead of a thick and durable body wall, the concrete channel walls prevent the explosive charge 3 expansion.
With a thin body wall, the much greater explosion energy is directed to the destruction of concrete.
The substance of the main charge 3 is a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel in a ratio of 10:1.
The compressive charge is a cylinder 2 of a rolled plate of trotyl.
In well 1 in the ground, a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel is filled to the bottom third of the well's depth.
The compressive cylinder 2 is inserted into the middle third of the well and filled with a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel.
The upper charge 5 is a trotyl disk.
The detonator 4 and the upper charge 5 are installed on the upper edge of the compressive cylinder 2 and covered with soil up to the top of the well.
From the detonator 4, the detonation wave propagates along the upper charge 5 and reaches the compressive charge 2.
The implosive shock wave of the charge 2 compresses and heats the peripheral part of the upper half of the main charge 3.
This part of the main charge detonates and starts the implosion of the upper half of the main charge.
The implosion of the charge's top part compresses, heats, and detonates the bottom of the main charge 3.
Provisional Application No. 63/373,453 Confirmation #3028Patent center #60905519Received 08/24/2022 23:28:00 ETFiled by Eugene Deerman
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63373453 | Aug 2022 | US |
