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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1985
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven B Segletes, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
102476 ; 102307 ;
Abstract
A plurality of disks with the outer shape of a circle has another circle ched non-concentrically in the disk. By stacking the proper assortment of disks about a symmetric warhead, the appropriate asymmetry profile can be obtained. Any asymmetry profile can be created through the proper stacking of disks even if the desired profile is non-linear. With an assortment of extra disks the confinement about a warhead can be quickly modified to provide another configuration based on the results of the test made on the previous warhead.