SBIR-STTR Award

This is an effort to design, fabricate and electronically test a breadboard model of a fusing system which can accurately determine the depth of penetration by a kinetic delivery of weapon warh1!:ad into a hard target over a variety of impact angles and ballistic impact. It is target programmed before launch, command armed and controls the warhead burst point as a function of a preprogrammed and target environmental inputs. This design has a unique feature of filtering to a great extent the noise in the sensor output due to structural ringing of the projectile casing, sensor natural frequency or variation in barrier density. During the first phase the unit will be subjected to simulated impact environment.

This is the second phase of the program for design and development of a fuzing system which can accurately determine the depth of penetration of a kinetically delivered warhead over a target at a variety of impact angles and ballistic impact. It is target programmed before launch and it controls the warhead burst point as a function of a preprogrammed and target environmental inputs. The effort also establishes a method to ignite secondary explosives by means of laser using laser idode as a source. During this phase (Phase II), fuzing system is designed, fabricated and tested against targets such as concrete and multilayer targets consisting of concrete slabs separated by a cavity. A laser ignition system is identified and tested. Finally, a programmable in-line fuzing using laser initiation is designed, fabricated and tested for ignition performance. If the performance of laser system is inadequate, slapper detonator will be used for ignition.