Orbital ATK Successfully Demonstrates New Advanced Missile Warhead for High Temperatures and Velocities
26 Abril 2018 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
Advanced warhead for hypersonic speeds
designed, validated, built and tested in less than 60 days
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies, has successfully demonstrated its new advanced
missile warhead designed to survive in high temperature
environments and function at hyper velocities. Using decades of
experience in developing and fielding advanced warheads, Orbital
ATK designed, built and validated the new missile warhead for
hypersonic speeds in less than 60 days.
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Orbital ATK’s demonstration validated the
design of its advanced missile warhead for hypersonic speeds, as
well as confirmed the effectiveness of the additive manufacturing
materials and process. (Photo: Business Wire)
For the demonstration, Orbital ATK employed its proven modeling
capability, which correlates real world results to accurately
predict weapon performance in order to reduce time spent in the
design phase. In addition, the tested warheads were built with
additive manufacturing to produce the warheads’ precise and
complicated geometric shapes relatively quickly, speeding up their
readiness for testing.
“Successfully completing an R&D program in less than 60 days
does not happen by accident. There are very few companies that can
offer a similar combination of technical expertise and schedule
responsiveness,” said Pat Nolan, Vice President and General Manager
of Missile Products at Orbital ATK. “Our deep heritage in high
speed systems as well as warheads, fuzes and rocket motors, enables
our team to develop innovative technologies that will ultimately
help the warfighter be ready for challenges on the battlefield and
able to execute their missions reliably, precisely and safely.”
Designing a warhead for high velocities is dramatically
different than designing a normal warhead, as it needs to be shaped
differently to ensure the fragmentation occurs as intended against
the target. The tested warheads leveraged Orbital ATK’s Lethality
Enhanced Ordnance (LEO) fragmentation technology, a scalable
solution with the ability to provide an extended range in a variety
of warhead sizes.
Orbital ATK’s Defense Systems Group is an industry leader in
providing innovative and affordable precision and strike weapons,
advanced propulsion and hypersonics, missile components across
air-, sea- and land-based systems, ammunition and related energetic
products.
About Orbital ATK
Orbital ATK is a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies. The company designs, builds and delivers space,
defense and aviation systems for customers around the world, both
as a prime contractor and merchant supplier. Its main products
include launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile
products, subsystems and defense electronics; precision weapons,
armament systems and ammunition; satellites and associated space
components and services; and advanced aerospace structures.
Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, Orbital ATK employs
approximately 14,000 people across the U.S. and in several
international locations. For more information, visit
www.orbitalatk.com.
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