{"id":192167,"date":"2009-05-02T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/02\/afrl-develops-directional-fusing-for-a\/"},"modified":"2009-05-02T05:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T10:59:00","slug":"afrl-develops-directional-fusing-for-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/02\/afrl-develops-directional-fusing-for-a\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRL Develops Directional Fusing for A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img99.imageshack.us\/img99\/5760\/bff1b0325b6e4a3e843a4ec.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/>The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is looking at fuses and configurations that would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A7b92b513-9d5b-4917-8ef9-549c5033bf83\">allow a warhead to direct the bulk of its shrapnel toward the target<\/a>, as opposed to distributing it more or less evenly in all directions.<\/p>\n<p>This intended to be a part of the Joint Dual-Role Air Dominance Missile (JDRADM), a missile intended to replace both the AMRAAM AAM and the HARM ARM.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit dubious of packaging both of these roles into one missile, but the fusing and warhead tech here looks promising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is looking at fuses and configurations that would allow a warhead to direct the bulk of its shrapnel toward the target, as opposed to distributing it more or less evenly in all directions. This intended to be a part of the Joint Dual-Role Air Dominance Missile (JDRADM), a missile &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1180,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missiles","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}