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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2013
John Geaney, Lafayette, NJ (US);
Jason Cahayla, West Milford, NJ (US);
Lloyd Khuc, Wharton, NJ (US);
John Geaney, Lafayette, NJ (US);
Jason Cahayla, West Milford, NJ (US);
Lloyd Khuc, Wharton, NJ (US);
The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method of autonomously tailoring a detonation delay time of a gun launched munition by utilizing target impact signatures including but not limited to a MOUT target set; earth and timber bunker, triple brick wall, double reinforced concrete, and light armor. While the present method is applicable to countless munition configurations, the projectile architecture used to develop the discrimination algorithm includes a tandem warhead configuration. Upon target impact the forward warhead detonates and pre-damages the target to allow the rear warhead to break through. Target impact data is used to set a detonation delay in the rear warhead providing increased performance behind the target.