ELONGATED SHAPED CHARGE Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC F42B1/02 F42B3/08 

FIELD: blasting, applicable in cropping of bulky metal structures to scrap.

SUBSTANCE: the elongated shaped charge has a casing of highly plastic material filled with a powdery or coarsely crystalline explosive reused from salvaged ammunition, with a V-shaped cumulative recess made along its generating line and equipment placed in it over the entire length of the charge along the detonation command charge-distributor axis, made of a detonating elongated charge of the non-cumulative type of an extrahigh explosive enclosed in an metal casing having a round or elliptic section and located in the vertical axis of section of the elongated shaped charge opposite the apex of the communicative recess at a distance of 1/5 to 1/3 of its outside diameter from the inner wall of the casing, and a gasket of polymeric material, 0.1 to 0.2 mm thick, is tightly fitted between its equipment and the inner surface of the communicative recess facing.

EFFECT: enhanced efficiency of action of the elongated shaped charge.

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