PURPOSE: To provide a warhead whose volume and weight can be reduced compared to conventional ones and which has a high directivity.
CONSTITUTION: A warhead 10 is shaped in a rotor form and is charged with explosive inside. A target detector 12 to detect a target is provided and a plurality of initiators are also arranged on the circumference of the explosive. In addition, a controller 13 is provided by which the most distant one of the plurality of initiators from a shell splinter 4 of the warhead 10 to be released toward the target is first activated, and a prescribed time after, the most distant initiator bunt one from the shell splinter 4 is activated, that is, the initiators are activated successively with a time delay in an order of distance of initiator position.
WO/2008/120210 | NON-LETHAL PROJECTILE |
JPS63108199 | INITIATOR FOR NOSE |
WATANABE TADAHIKO
IMOTO HARUO
MITSUBISHI HEAVY IND LTD