Month of April 2008

A missile having a shaped charge warhead mounted therein for being canted or near a target to present the shaped charge warhead in an advantageous position for destroying the target.

An improved fiber reinforced penetrator rod for a kinetic energy projectile aving enhanced penetrating strength is disclosed herein. Embedded in a matrix medium of depleted uranium, or liquid phase sintered tungsten, are long fibers of tungsten-hafnium-carbide which are knitted into a continuous weave over the entire...

A method and apparatus is shown for programming near perfect accuracy for ch shot in a rapid burst machine gun sequence which heretofore was not known to be attainable. Because of vibrations from many sources in the barrel, which are predictable and repeatable, it is impossible for each shot to land directly, except...

The beam of a laser radar is moved over the field of view by means of a p of scanner/trackers arranged in cascade along the laser beam. One of the scanner/trackers operates at high speed, with high resolution and a narrow field and is located in the demagnified portion of the laser beam. The other scanner/tracker...

Diffusion bonding spacer block tooling or mandrels having low physical mass and low thermal mass and specially adapted to the fabrication of airframe component elements such as titanium structures. Alternate uses for the disclosed structure and a plurality of spacer block example configurations and preferred stainless...

A snap slit door having at least one panel and a flat closure means used to reate tension in the door panel or panels, such tension acting as the closure force generated by the closure means for the door panel or panels. The flat closure means may be adjustable such that the tension and resulting resistance to opening...

This invention relates to a system for vibration testing of specimens using n electro-dynamic shaker. It overcomes the various undesirable consequences which attend the existing technology and methodology, which uses a constant thickness flat plate platen, by using an inverted, truncated pyramid type of platen, with...

A method of measuring the shear viscosity of a polymeric solution by measng the delayed die swell of a pressurized solution through a capillary.

This invention relates to a method for assessment of the condition, and cge of condition, of the liquid fill for chemical projectiles by analyzing the vibrational characteristics of the projectile and fill. It is a method by which the condition of the liquid fill in a projectile can be assessed without requiring...

An electrical power converter comprising two current-fed square wave chops the outputs of which are combined and rectified to yield a variable and regulated output voltage. The phase relationship of the choppers are varied to achieve output voltage control and regulation. The chopper outputs are combined in such a way...