Shaped charge warhead with insensitive high-explosive (FOX-7)

Authors:

  • Helte Andreas
  • Carlsson Torgny
  • Eldsäter Carina
  • Lundgren Jonas
  • Örnhed Håkan

Publish date: 2005-01-01

Report number: FOI-R--1780--SE

Pages: 13

Written in: Swedish

Abstract

The use of insensitive munition (IM) becomes more and more important to increase the safety of weapon platforms, transportation, storage and munition handling. One way to obtain IM properties is to use a low sensitive secondary high-explosive (HE) in the warhead. This report presents ongoing work at FOI to evaluate the performance of the HE FOX-7 (1,1-diamino 2,2-dinitroethylene, also denoted DADE or DADNE) in shaped charge applications. The experimental results shows that in almost all aspects the FOX-7 charge improved upon a reference hexotol filled baseline charge.