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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2009
John W. Yelverton, Port Walton Beach, FL (US);
John W. Yelverton, Port Walton Beach, FL (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The invention represents a novel system for controlling the yield of an explosive charge that enables the explosive yield to be selected or decreased from full-yield detonation incrementally down to low-yield detonation using a continuous linear shaped charge jet spiraled around the main charge explosive and deflagrating a selected portion of the main charge explosive. The spiral linear shaped charge jet initiation system activates and projects a liner in a radial direction across a diameter of the main charge explosive in a spiral around its axis at a preselected deflagration velocity toward a main-charge detonation shock front reducing the main charge explosive.