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Some Passive Attack Weapon is an air-dropped guided bomb containing 3,750 non-explosive steel and tungsten penetrator rods of various sizes. It was designed to attack targets where an explosive effect may be undesirable, such as fuel storage tanks in civilian areas.
A kinetic energy penetrator (also known as a KE weapon) is a type of ammunition which, like a bullet, does not contain explosives and uses kinetic energy to penetrate the target.
The 'Fin' round travels at around 975 m/s (3200 ft/s), resulting in the generation of three and a half tones of force when it comes in contact with a weighted and/or fixed object. Energy, and therefore speed, inevitably decreases during flight, however it is still very deadly at ranges up to six kilometers.
The principle of the kinetic energy penetrator is that it uses its kinetic energy, which is a function of mass and velocity, to force its way through armor. The modern KE weapon maximizes KE and minimizes the area over which it is delivered by:
- being fired with a very high muzzle velocity
- concentrating the force in a small impact area while still retaining a relatively large mass
- maximizing the mass of whatever (albeit small) volume is occupied by the projectile—that is, using the densest metals practical, which is one of the reasons depleted uranium is often used.
And also kinetic energy penetrators composed of tungsten based alloys avoid the cost and toxicity issues associated with uranium. In this program, High Pressure Float Zone crystal growth was investigated as a means of producing single crystal and oriented polycrystalline tungsten and tungsten alloys X-ray diffraction, high rate compression testing, and optical microscopy were used to assess the results.
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