Method and device for the destruction of a warhead which is completely buried in sand

摘要

A method and a device for destruction of a warhead (11) which is even completely buried in sand, by triggering an explosive detonation in the warhead (11) by means of a hollow-charge jet (27), are to be designed so that it is possible to employ them in an environmentally safe way, whilst ensuring high efficiency. For this, the warhead (11), after its position has been located, is bombarded from a remotely controllable carrier (18). For this, the carrier (18) is equipped with a single, pivotably directable front-loader cartridge (19) for slender hollow-charge projectiles (20, 20') with percussion fuses (24) for its only small combat charge (25). The bombardment of the located target position is also carried out in a directionally stable manner by air/water, water/sand or air/sand media transfers having a linear trajectory (22), because the projectile tip (23) is designed to cause cavitation effects in the surrounding medium (17), so that a media-free cavity forms behind an end breakaway edge approximately concentrically to the trajectory (22) and therefore to the longitudinal axis of the projectile. IMAGE