| abstract |
An explosive composition containing essentially of an intimate mixture of 15 TO 45% BY WEIGHT OF A PARTICULATE HIGH EXPLOSIVE FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF RDX (1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazacyclohexane) and HMX (1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetraazacyclooctane and mixtures thereof, 15 TO 50% BY WEIGHT OF AMMONIUM NITRATE, AND 20 TO 60% BY WEIGHT OF ETHYLENEDIAMINE DINITRATE; WHEREIN THE WEIGHT RATIO OF AMMONIUM NITRATE TO ETHYLENEDIAMINE DINITRATE IS FROM 1:2.5 TO 1.5:1, RESPECTIVELY, AND PARTICULARLY ABOUT 1:1. These explosive compositions provide an unexpectedly high explosive output with a relatively low content of RDX and/or HMX, and an equivalent output with much less RDX than conventional explosive compositions consisting of mixtures of RDX with AN and/or TNT. |