Weapons

Developed criteria for performance assessments of penetrator weapons for the United States Air Force and Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Formulated empirical formula for the impact of weapons for air-to-ground launch in taking out buried hard targets. The Bakhtar-formulated approach takes into account:

  • Characteristics of the host geologic system
  • Site-specific characteristics of the buried targets
  • Characteristics of surface cover
  • Launch altitude
  • Characteristics of the weapon
  • Impact Velocity
  • Dimensional details of weapons (aspect ratio)
  • Explosive Pay Load
  • Caliber Radius Head (CRH)

And enables the prediction of the degree of damage and closure to the sub-surface targets. The Bakhtar formulations have been successfully applied to Blue 109 and are applicable to the other air-to-ground GBUs including MOP.

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