US 12,173,996 B2
Munitions and methods for operating same
Sean Kevin Treadway, Mooresville, NC (US); Michael John Worsham, Mooresville, NC (US); Michael Brian Rauls, Mooresville, NC (US); and Erik Charles Wemlinger, Troutman, NC (US)
Assigned to Corvid Technologies LLC, Mooresville, NC (US)
Filed by Corvid Technologies LLC, Mooresville, NC (US)
Filed on Feb. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/174,796.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/314,830, filed on Feb. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0044624 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. F42B 12/22 (2006.01); F42B 12/28 (2006.01)
CPC F42B 12/28 (2013.01) 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A warhead comprising:
a tubular warhead body including a plurality of serially arranged preferentially fragmenting projectile rings;
a warhead high explosive in the warhead body;
an outer warhead subassembly defining a core slot, the outer warhead subassembly including:
the warhead body; and
the warhead high explosive; and
an axial core subassembly mounted in the core slot and including:
an axial core tube formed of a non-explosive material;
a forward effector in or on the axial core tube; and
an axial core high explosive disposed in the axial core tube and operative, when detonated, to drive the forward effector.