Fuel-air munition and device

Patent · Tue May 11 00:00:00 EDT 1976

OSTI ID:7251245

Carlson, G A

An aerially delivered fuel-air munition is described. An impermeable tank is filled with a pressurized liquid fuel and joined at its two opposite ends with a nose section and a tail assembly respectively to complete an aerodynamic shape. On impact the tank is explosively ruptured to permit dispersal of the fuel in the form of a fuel-air cloud which is detonated after a preselected time delay by means of high explosive initiators ejected from the tail assembly. The primary component in the fuel is methylacetylene, propadiene, or a mixture to which is added a small mole fraction of a relatively high vapor pressure liquid diluent or a dissolved gas diluent having a low solubility in the primary component.

• Assignee: Energy Research and Development Administration
• Patent Number(s): US 3955509
• OSTI ID: 7251245
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 21 Mar 1969; Other Information: PAT-APPL-809,440
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ORDNANCE
DESIGN
ADDITIVES
AERODYNAMICS
AIR
DETONATIONS
FUELS
IGNITION
MIXING
TANKS
CONTAINERS
EQUIPMENT
EXPLOSIVES
FLUID MECHANICS
FLUIDS
GASES
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