Patent ID: 8109213
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: F42B

Abstract:
1. An ammunition cartridge configured to breach and destroy a target, said cartridge comprising a front end and a base end, including JA-2 propellant filling the base end of the cartridge, a data link means at the extreme base end of the cartridge, the cartridge further including a projectile at the front end thereof, said projectile including a warhead made of 300M steel having a nose end comprising a pre-fragmented tungsten nose, said projectile including base loaded PAX-3 high explosive, a point detonate switch, said projectile further having a base detonating multi mode programmable fuze, a warhead closure disc at the projectile's aft end, and said projectile body further having folding fins attached aft said closure disc, said projectile also having a bourrelet ringing the exterior of the projectile at said aft end, and a bourrelet ringing said projectile at a midpoint between the projectile's nose end and said aft end, said midpoint chosen so that the center of gravity of the projectile lies centered between the two bourrelets, and wherein said warhead has an interior surface with a plurality of splines joining points thereon, and an exterior surface also with a plurality of sprines joining points thereon, the shape and location of such splines optimized by computer aided design.