Thin Penetrator Flying Bomb: Steel Casing Preliminary Damage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing flying bombs with standardized steel casings face challenges in minimizing collateral damage while maintaining effective penetration, as the casing often constitutes more than a third of the bomb's mass, limiting the mass available for the penetrator and thus the penetrator's effectiveness.
Innovation Solution
A flying bomb design utilizing a standardized steel bomb casing with a thin penetrator, where the distance between the penetrator's tip and the nose opening is greater than 100 mm, allowing the robust steel casing to initially damage the target, facilitating deeper penetration by the penetrator, which has a mass comparable to the former explosive charge, and includes an explosive charge in the tail for controlled impact effects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If a standardized steel bomb casing is used, then structural strength and aerodynamic characteristics are maintained, but the mass available for the penetrator is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The steel bomb casing performs preliminary damage to the target structure before the penetrator arrives. By positioning the nose opening at a distance greater than 100 mm from the penetrator tip, the casing impacts the target first, weakening it and creating favorable conditions for subsequent penetrator penetration, thereby resolving the mass limitation while maintaining structural strength
2Length of moving object
If the distance between penetrator tip and nose opening is increased, then penetration depth is improved, but the bomb casing length must be increased
Solution Approach 1:
The nose opening is positioned at a distance greater than 100 mm from the penetrator tip to enable preliminary target damage by the steel casing before penetrator impact. This preliminary action weakens the target structure, allowing the penetrator to achieve greater penetration depth without requiring excessive casing length
Solution Approach 2:
The invention optimizes the distance parameter between the nose opening and penetrator tip (greater than 100 mm) to achieve the optimal balance between preliminary damage effectiveness and penetrator penetration depth, resolving the contradiction between penetration depth and casing length
3Length of moving object
If a thin penetrator is used, then penetration effectiveness is improved, but the mass of the penetrator is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The steel bomb casing performs preliminary damage to the target before the thin penetrator impacts. This preliminary weakening of the target allows a thinner, lighter penetrator to achieve effective penetration that would otherwise require a much heavier penetrator, thus resolving the contradiction between penetration effectiveness and penetrator mass
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This design enhances penetration depth and effectiveness by utilizing the steel casing to weaken the target and allows for controlled collateral damage reduction, achieving greater penetrator penetration with minimal explosive charge, maintaining the aerodynamic characteristics of the original bomb.
Implementation Method 1
the bomb casing formed of steel causes initial damage to the target. The initial damage to the target allows the penetrator to penetrate considerably more deeply into the target
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AI summary
A flying bomb includes a standardized bomb casing formed of steel and having a nose opening and a tail opening. A thin penetrator is disposed in the bomb casing in order to achieve high effectiveness with little collateral damage when the flying bomb strikes a target. A distance between the tip of the penetrator and the nose opening is greater than 100 mm.