Patent ID: 8037822

Claim:
A munition, comprising: a warhead including a fuze well and a warhead explosive around the fuze well; a booster including a booster explosive placed inside the fuze well, said fuze well providing a physical barrier between the booster explosive and warhead explosive; a fuze behind the booster inside the fuze well that detonates the booster explosive creating a pressure wave with a peak pressure that has a forward axial component and a radial component; and a radial booster lens positioned between the booster and a closed end of the fuze well, said radial booster lens having a surface configured to re-direct a portion of the forward axial component in the radial direction to concentrate more energy in a lobe with increased peak pressure that travels approximately radially outward to penetrate the physical barrier formed by the fuze well and directly detonate the warhead approximately radially from the booster lens.