US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Eugene Song

Gene V Tracy

The various embodiments provide an incendiary device utilizing a multiple hollow core-burner technique that facilitates producing large diameter cuts through steel targets. To facilitate this result, the various embodiments incorporate a multiple-core burning design with multiple orifices at the base for directing multiple jets of molten reaction product at the target. The various embodiments further incorporate an optional holding device as a means for locking the device onto a target. Devices in accordance with the invention having a base diameter of 2.312&Prime; have been shown to be capable of producing an approximately 2&Prime; diameter hole through &frac14; inch thick steel plate using a 275 g thermite charge within a container three-quarters the size of a standard AN-M14 Thermite Grenade package.

Incendiary device

A holding device for a pyrotechnic, incendiary device. More particularly, a holding device for a thermite or thermate based destructive device or enhanced incendiary grenade. The device assembly allows for firm attachment of pyrotechnic, incendiary devices, particularly enhanced incendiary grenades, to targets having various surface shapes and orientations, or formed of various materials. The holding device is inexpensive and easily reproducible.

Pyrotechnic incendiary grenade holding device

A destructive device containing a thermite-type composition having a core burning configuration. The device comprises a housing having a top, a bottom, and a thermally insulated liner to maximize the thermal effectiveness of an ignition. The bottom has a circumferential skirt and defines one orifice therein for directing the expulsion of the thermite-type-composition upon ignition, the top has vents which together with the bottom orifice and skirt balance the escape of gas and prevent the device from moving during ignition.

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Eugene Song