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DE Technologies, in partnership with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, successfully completed a Navy Advanced Technology Demonstration of a Reactive Material Enhanced Warhead for anti-air application.

The program culminated in full-scale testing of the Reactive Material Enhanced Warhead, designed and built by DET.  Reactions that occur within a target airframe cause catastrophic structural damage. In addition, many critical target components are vulnerable to high temperatures.

Arena test of full-scale test of the Reactive Material Enhanced Warhead against a suite of air and ground targets (click for larger image). The many flashes of light, which indicate impacts by reactive-material fragments, are not seen in tests of conventional inert-metal-fragment warheads.

DET continues to work in the forefront of this technology, in improving the properties of the reactive materials, which have applications also in shaped charges, underwater warheads, mine neutralization, and active protection systems.

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