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KINETIC INITIATED CORE MUNITIONS (KICM™) 0.50 Caliber

Presented by: Keith Enlow Green Ammo Program Manager IR & D ATK LAKE CITY SMALL CALIBER AMMUNITION Randall Busky Chemical Engineer IR & D ATK LAKE CITY SMALL CALIBER AMMUNITION. KINETIC INITIATED CORE MUNITIONS (KICM™) 0.50 Caliber. Introducing ATK Lake City’s KICM ™ 50 Caliber SAPHEI .

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KINETIC INITIATED CORE MUNITIONS (KICM™) 0.50 Caliber

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  1. Presented by:Keith EnlowGreen Ammo Program ManagerIR & D ATK LAKE CITY SMALL CALIBER AMMUNITIONRandall BuskyChemical EngineerIR & D ATK LAKE CITY SMALL CALIBER AMMUNITION KINETIC INITIATED CORE MUNITIONS (KICM™) 0.50 Caliber

  2. Introducing ATK Lake City’s KICM™ 50 Caliber SAPHEI • KICM™ SAPHEI Features: • Insensitive HE Mix Using “Reactive Material” • Delayed Explosive Effects Inside Targets • Exposed Steel Tip For Efficient Penetration • Heavy Metal Free Projectile Components • Provides Enhanced “Standoff” Performance: • Penetrates Ballistic Armor Similar to M8, M20 And Mk 211 • Creates Overpressures at Secondary Impact • Generates Incendiary Event On Secondary Impact • Produces Shrapnel at Primary Impact

  3. The .50 Caliber Family Is Ready For Improvements Background • Caliber .50 family developed starting in 1919, M8 in 1941. KICM™ Introduction Plan • Replace M8 API • “Family of Munitions” Concept • Replace linked ammunition with more lethal “Family” combination • A567 ( 4 X API, 1 APIT) • AA06 (MP, AP, MP, AP, Tracer) • with new KICM™ linked series ( AP, API(T), SAPHEI, HEI, TRNG (Ball))

  4. KICM™ Family Has Product Life Cycle Advantages • Safe Compositions: • RMs are extremely insensitive under normal handling • Environmentally “Friendly” • Heavy metal free • Non-explosive disposal while incinerating • Lean Manufacturing: • Modular Design • Customized Mass Production • Shared general process • Additional steps add value for specific characteristics • Improved Performance • Same ballistic performance for all cartridges in belt • Increase lethality with single burst to disable target • Provide different terminal effects in belt • Provide same ballistic performance in belt • Increase effectiveness range

  5. KICM™ Releases Its Chemical Energy After Penetration This product’s innovation: KICM differentiates from the legacy cartridges by releasing chemical energy after initial penetration. Direction of Fire M8 MK211 KICM SAPHEI

  6. Reactive Materials do not act like legacy High Explosives RM’s produce little to no gas phase products during oxidation Direction of Fire Condensation shock wave

  7. Disabling An APC With The KICM™ Cartridge Is Possible 6” 1/4th” Back Plate 5/8th” Front Plate BMP2 side armor is approx. 5/8th inches

  8. KICM™ Improves 50 Caliber Family Lethality Changes In KICM’s™ Modular DesignProduces Different Explosive Effects Direction of Fire Secondary Impact Ignition Deep Impact Ignition Point Ignition

  9. KICM™’s Introduction At The Infantry School Has Generated Other Interests

  10. High Speed Video Reveals Impact Detonation On Second Plate Secondary Impact Plate Primary Impact Plate Terminal Ballistics Improvement: Ignition inside or exit of the target has a greater chance of secondary explosions to immobilize target.

  11. KICM™ Penetrator Design Is Based On Best Features Of More Than 50+ Years Of 0.50 Caliber Ideas Fifty Caliber Shooters Association

  12. KICM™ Review • KICM™ SAPHEI - Technical Readiness • Initiation, Reaction and Penetration performance empirically understood and demonstrated • Legacy performance in penetration and accuracy • Improved performance in safety of design, impact pressure generation, incendiary effects and vehicle mobility lethality

  13. Future KICM™ Family Development Ideas • Next step - Assess “extreme range” performance • HEI – the introduction of 1.1 Explosives into the RM Mixes similar to “dynamite” • API – the use of extremely hard materials for penetrator and body • SRSD – chemically timed fragmentation What does the customer want? Tunable design.

  14. ATK Leads Small Cal Cartridge Innovation and Design • “Team ATK” to enhance KICM™ - • ATK Joint Technological Strengths Key to Success of RM Program • Ordnance Ground Systems for Penetration and Body Fragmentation studies • Alliant Ammo and Powder for Enhanced Velocity Propellant • ATK Thiokol for Reactive Materials • ATK Federal and CCI/Speer for “Heavy Metal Free” Primers • ATK Lake City – World Leader in small caliber ammunition production, design, and innovation.

  15. ATK Lake City Leads Small Cal Cartridge Design Capabilities • ATK Lake City – World Leader in small caliber ammunition production, design, and innovation. • State-of-the-art Materials Analysis Lab • World Class Ballistics Testing Lab • 200 yd – 2400 Yd Range Testing capabilities to assess ballistic performance • Gelatin testing capabilities for tissue simulation • High Speed Video • Extreme High Speed Multiple Exposure Photography • High Speed Flash X-Ray • Doppler Radar Decel • PRODAS Ballistic Modeling • Internal, External, and Terminal Ballistic Modeling • Whole Bullet Recovery capabilities after firing • Ballistic modeling capabilities to assess internal, external, and terminal ballistics performance • Full Research and Development Manufacturing Lab

  16. KICM™ Team Members And Their Contributions • Jim Bourdlais – ATK Lake City – Project Engineer • Ed Bray – ATK Lake City – Design Engineer • Tod Botcher – ATK Lake City – IR& D Lab Manager • Steve Baker – ATK Lake City - Process Engineer • Dan B. Nielson – ATK Thiokol – Principal Scientist • Randy Busky – ATK Lake City – Chemical Engineer • Robert Contaldi – ATK Lake City – IR&D Engineering Manager • Keith Enlow – ATK Lake City – Business Development

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