Emergency Destruction System for Recovered Chemical Munitions
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At the request of the U.S. Army Project Manager for Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel, Sandia National Laboratories is developing a transportable system for destroying recovered, explosively configured, chemical warfare munitions. The system uses shaped charges to access the chemical agent and burster followed by chemical neutralization to destroy them. The entire process takes place inside a sealed pressure vessel. In this paper, we review the design, operation, and testing of a prototype system capable of containing up to one pound of explosive.
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