Warhead

US5090324A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Jurgen Bocker · Oberhausen, DE
• Wilfried Scheideler · Düsseldorf, DE
• Hendrik Lips · Goldkronach, DE
• Hans Orth · Düsseldorf, DE
• Herbert Weisshaupt · Aachen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 7, 1990
• Grant date: Feb 25, 1992
• Expiry date: May 7, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42B1/032
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A warhead (10') which includes a shaped or projectile forming charge in the form of a liner (14) of a multi-phase metallic material or a metal-metal laminate. To prevent the liner (14) from being destroyed by the incoming shock wave and make impossible the formation of a projectile, that is, a shaped charge jet, a layer (15) is arranged, in front of the liner (14) on the side of the explosive, with the layer (15) causing the shock wave front to be flattened and damped and having an acoustic impedance which is lower than that of the liner (14).