Re: Miznay-Schardin effect

From: Carey Sublette (careysub_at_earthling.net)
Date: 01/27/05 

To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:56:22 GMT

"Michael Emrys" <emrys@olypen.com> wrote in message
news:BE1D532D.52437%emrys@olypen.com...
> in article 1106743637.358191.229110@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com,
> jacklinthicum@earthlink.net at jacklinthicum@earthlink.net wrote on
> 1/26/05
> 4:47 AM:
>
>> Slight puzzlement: the Claymore mine seems to be an almost constant cross
>> reference to Misznay-Schardin but the Claymore, while it could be
>> considered a
>> shaped charge weapon, does not seem to be an example of the M-S 'effect'.
>
> The Claymore scatters dozens of round shot in a cone-shaped pattern,
> doesn't
> it? Somewhat like a a cannister round or a very large sawed-off shotgun?

Cone shaped pattern? No, definitely not.

The Claymore fires a pattern of pellets over a 60 degree horizontal arc, but
is only a few degrees wide vertically. This highly directional shaping is
crucial to its substantial effective range (fragment density essentially
100% lethal out to 50 m, the pellets themselves are deadly to 250 m).

One can imagine how the original Claymore, which used a scored, fragmenting
*** of steel, might grow out of empirical Misznay-Schardin experiments.
All this work involved experiments with firing metal plates from blocks of
explosive with various shaping strategies to vary the effects. Somewhere
along the way someone hit upon the idea that you could fragment the plate
and achieve controlled dispersal in a wide (horizontally) yet narrow
(vertically) fan.