MEMS-Based Architecture to Improve Submunition Fuze Safety and Reliability

摘要

One of the urgent needs in the current and future battlefield is to dramatically improve the reliability and safety of submunition grenades. The ARDEC Fuze Division is developing a MEMS-based safety and arming architecture for submunition fuzes that will so significantly improve the munition's primary reliability that the need for self-destruct (SD) technology will be eliminated. At the same time the safety requirement for transport aboard Navy warships will be met by providing each submunition with a dual-safe safety and arming (S AND A) device that must sense a proper launch and expulsion environment.