Claims
- 1. The method of forming a product which may be explosively burst apart to form a millimeter wave screening cloud, comprising:
- forming a hollow bar of aligned fibers of carbon composition;
- cutting said hollow bar into disks of a predetermined length to thereby form a compact mass of aligned fibers of desired length; and
- stacking said disks inside a frangible body to form a hollow cylinder having carbon fibers compressed to a density of about 1.0 grams/cubic centimeter within said body.
- 2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said fibers are longitudinally aligned.
- 3. The method according to claim 1 wherein said fibers are radially compressed between two concentric frangible tubes.
- 4. The method according to claim 1 wherein said disks are stacked in a conventional cylindrical grenade body.
- 5. The method according to claim 1 including stacking said hollow disks to form a cylindrical opening suitable for inserting a bursting charge.
- 6. The method according to claim 5 including inserting an elongate high explosive bursting charge within said cylindrical opening along the length of said compact mass of fibers.
- 7. The method according to claim 1 wherein the ratio of the weight of the compacted mass of fibers relative to the high explosive charge is in the general range of 60:1 to 30:1.
- 8. The method according to claim 1 including aligning said dissemination disks to increase the survivability of the fibers upon fibers.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation application of Ser. No. 08/006,587, filed Jan. 21, 1993, and now abandoned.
GOVERNMENTAL INTEREST
The invention described herein may be manufactured, used and licensed by or for the Government for governmental purposes without payment to us of any royalties thereon.
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