Breault Research Organization, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N221-075

Description

Naval air and surface combatant forces are confronting ever-evolving more dangerous, more complex, more distant and more diverse high value targets during land and sea warfare operations.  Our technical submission illustrates representative examples for some of these diverse high value target types, including naval ships, bunkers, buildings, POL refineries and power plants.  Effective attack of these kinds of targets require warheads with various combinations of penetration, blast and fragmentation lethal effects initiated by sophisticated fuzing systems. An important consequence of these high value targets is naval strike power projection from aircraft and surface ship missile launch platforms need greater standoff ranges.  Greater standoff ranges for missiles require more fuel with more weight.  As missile launch weights are essentially fixed, more weight for fuel means less weight for some other onboard system, which is usually only available from the warhead.  Thus the difficult challenge is to create lighter weight warheads with the same or better lethality.