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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 1976
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1973
Milton K Burford, China Lake, CA (US);
Joseph F Mattis, Ridgecrest, CA (US);
Peter D Gratton, Simpsonville, MD (US);
William J Donahue, Takoma Park, MD (US);
Michael A Halling, San Diego, CA (US);
Ken Pinkerton, Westminster, CA (US);
Thomas A Cammack, Beltsville, MD (US);
Rodney A Bernardin, Wayzota, MN (US);
Lee Johnson, Edina, MN (US);
Art Lohmann, Hopkins, MN (US);
Ed Abt, Chalfont, PA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A target discriminating antipersonnel/antimaterial cluster weapon capable distinguishing between hard and soft targets. Upon striking a hard target such as armor or concrete, shear rivets are defeated causing a striker to plunge a firing pin into a stab detonator which through an explosive transfer train causes immediate detonation of the bomblet. Upon hitting a soft target such as sandy soil, the shear rivets will not be sheared, however, an inertia firing weight plunges a firing pin assembly into a stab primer which leads to a propellant charge causing the bomblet to pop back up into the air. The bomblet then is detonated through a pyrotechnic delay in the air. The bomblet is armed during its descent via a flutter plate giving oscillatory motion which is transferred into rotary motion. The rotary motion is employed to align the primer and detonator with the firing pins.