METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A PROJECTILE INCORPORATING A METASTABLE INTERSTITIAL COMPOSITE MATERIAL
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A method and apparatus for incorporating nanophase elemental materials and metastable interstitial composite materials into projectiles, projectile fragments, ordnance casings, warheads and structural components. The projectile, fragments and casings include an elemental material capable of oxidizing. A coating material that is capable of preventing oxidation of the elemental material and an oxidizing agent may be present and be capable of reacting with the elemental material so that a self-propagating high temperature synthesis reaction from a stabilized solid material is yielded for the purpose of rendering terminal effects or thermal impact to a target at impact.
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1. -29. (canceled)
- 30. A method of manufacturing a projectile that can create a thermal event comprising swaging an oxidizing agent with an elemental material into a desired shape, wherein the elemental material has a purity of at least approximately 75% and at least 90% of the elemental material oxidizes within approximately 10 seconds of exposure to oxygen to produce the thermal event.
- 39. A method of manufacturing a projectile that can create a thermal event comprising swaging a coated elemental material into a desired shape, wherein the coated elemental material has a purity of at least approximately 75% and at least approximately 90% of the elemental material oxidizes within approximately 10 seconds of exposure to oxygen to produce the thermal event.
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