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Shaped charge

A shaped charge, commonly also hollow charge if shaped with a cavity, is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's energy. Different types of shaped charges are used for various purposes such as cutting and forming metal, initiating nuclear weapons, penetrating armor, or perforating wells in the oil and gas industry.

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Shaped charge

Nodes163
Edges162
Triples102
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.01227
Components1

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related to Tandem warhead · 22
Shaped charge → Congressional, ERA, Eryx, Examples, Hellfire, HOT, MILAN, NATO, Recently, RPG-27, RPG-29, Russian, Some, Soviet, The, The Army, The US Hellfire, TOW-2, TOW-2A, US
related to Explosive charge · 19
Shaped charge → CL-20, Composition, Cyclonites, Cyclotols, Estane, For, HMX, It, LX-14, LX-19, Octol, Other, PBX, PBXs, RDX-based, Some, The, There, TNT
related to Explosively formed penetrator · 14
Shaped charge → An EFP, BAD, BAE, CD, CDs, EFP, If, Misnay-Schardin, MS, SEFOP, SFF, The, The EFP, This
related to External links · 10
Shaped charge → Charges Pierce, Fission Weapon DesignShaped, Germans, Hollow, Iraq, Popular Science, Professor Munroe's, Toughest TargetsThe, WWII, WWIIUse
related to Linear shaped charges · 8
Shaped charge → At, For, Generally, LSC, LSCs, RSJ, The, V-shaped
related to Voitenko compressor · 7
Shaped charge → Ames Laboratory, In, Soviet, The, The Voitenko, Voitenko, When
related to Nuclear shaped charges · 6
Shaped charge → Also, For, Project Orion, Shaped-charge, Ted Taylor, The
related to Other features · 5
Shaped charge → Another, Given, In, The, Waveshapers
related to Non-military · 4
Shaped charge → Another, In, Shaped, They
related to Variants · 1
Shaped charge → There

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cuttinginstance ofDifferent types of shaped charges are used for various purposes0.80text
forming metalinstance ofDifferent types of shaped charges are used for various purposes0.80text
initiating nuclear weaponsinstance ofDifferent types of shaped charges are used for various purposes0.80text
penetrating armorinstance ofDifferent types of shaped charges are used for various purposes0.80text
or perforating wells in the oilinstance ofDifferent types of shaped charges are used for various purposes0.80text
gas industry.The effectiveness of a shaped charge is significantly influenced by manufacturing technologyinstance ofDifferent types of shaped charges are used for various purposes0.80text
Shaped chargerelated to Explosive chargeFor0.60section
Shaped chargerelated to Explosive chargeThe0.60section
Shaped chargerelated to Explosive chargeHMX0.60section
Shaped chargerelated to Explosive chargeIt0.60section
Shaped chargerelated to Explosive chargePBX0.60section
Shaped chargerelated to Explosive chargeLX-140.60section

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