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shaped charge [′shāpt ′chärj] (ordnance) An explosive charge with a shaped cavity that forces the impact of the explosion to the front so that there is an armor-piercing force. Also known as cavity charge. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Their development costs much more than the development of routine munitions like HEF and CR with shaped-charge fragmentation warheads (SCFW). The missile's warhead and associated multi-target, time-delay programmable fuze provide both a shaped-charge capability to defeat armored targets and a blast fragmentation capability for use against lightly armored or soft targets. Odintsov claims that "gambling on semiactive laser homing of the projectile" was "wrong" and the arming it with a high-explosive fragmentation instead of with a shaped-charge head was a mistake. |
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