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The primary warhead for the original CRV7 was the U.S. M151 High Explosive Point Detonating (HEPD) round, a simple impact-fired 10 lb (4.5 kg) high-explosive shell. Like the U.S. 2.75-inch (70 mm) weapons, the CRV7 could also be equipped with the M156 Smoke or M257/278 Illumination ( flare ) rounds.
An improvised explosive device in Iraq. When activated, the concave copper shape on top becomes an explosively formed penetrator.. EFPs have been used in improvised explosive devices against armoured cars, for example [10] in the 1989 assassination of German banker Alfred Herrhausen (attributed to the Red Army Faction) [11] and by Hezbollah in the 1990s. [12]
The Mark 1B was ordinarily assembled into three sections: the warhead, the air flask and the after-body. The warhead carried the explosive charge of wet guncotton. The Mark 1B was a "cold-running" torpedo. [1] The three-cylinder reciprocating engine ran on cold, compressed air which was stored in the air flask at 1350 pounds per square inch.
PBXN-109 is a less sensitive explosive filler when compared to H6. [15] The BLU-111/B also is the warhead of the A-1 version of the Joint Stand-Off Weapon . BLU-111A/B – Used by the U.S. Navy, [ 16 ] this is the BLU-111/B with a thermal-protective coating added [ 15 ] to reduce cook-off in (fuel-related) fires.
An example of a tandem charge warhead is used by the 9M133M Kornet-M missile system However, tandem charges are more useful against explosive reactive armour, less so against the non-explosive reactive armor, since their inner liner is not explosive itself and thus not expended by the small forward warhead of tandem-charge attack. [citation needed]
A B61 nuclear bomb in various stages of assembly; the nuclear warhead is the bullet-shaped silver canister in the middle-left of the photograph.. A warhead is the section of a device that contains the explosive agent or toxic (biological, chemical, or nuclear) material that is delivered by a missile, rocket, torpedo, or bomb.
High-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) is the effect of a shaped charge explosive that uses the Munroe effect to penetrate heavy armor. The warhead functions by having an explosive charge collapse a metal liner inside the warhead into a high-velocity shaped charge jet; this is capable of penetrating armor steel to a depth of seven or more times the ...
The live warhead contained more mass, so it reached equilibrium at a lower depth. [51] Also, the depth mechanism was designed prior to the warhead's explosive charge being increased, making the torpedo even heavier overall. "Testing conditions became more and more unrealistic, obscuring the effect of the heavier warhead on depth performance."