REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

www.mod.gov.rs

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Material Resources Sector

Defensive Technologies Department

Military Technical Institute

www.vti.mod.gov.rs

EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITY OF CUTTING BY LINEAR DETONATION SHAPED CHARGE (LDSC) WITH SMALL LINEAR MASS OF EXPLOSIVE CORE

DUŠAN VRAČARIĆ

Military Technical Institute, Belgrade, vracaricd@gmail.com

SLAVICA TERZIĆ

Military Technical Institute, Belgrade, slavica@alogodesk.com

DRAGAN ILIĆ

Military Technical Institute, Belgrade

Abstract: This document presents basic characteristics of the Linear Detonation Shaped Charge  (LDSC) and experimental results of reliability of their initiation and completeness of detonation process the entire LDSC’s length. The LDSC has small linear mass of explosive core. The results of cutting efficiency of LDSC on two types of materials of various thicknesses and cutting efficiency of LDSC on canopy in light school aircraft LASTA are shown.

Key words: Linear Detonation Shaped Charges (LDSC), cutting, acrylate glass, strips of aluminum alloys, aircraft LASTA (Swallow).