Antony confers two team awards to TBRL scientists

By Punjabnewswire4u

CHANDIGARH, MAY 29  

Chandigarh based Terminal Ballistics Research  Laboratory (TBRL) Scientists of Defence Research &  Development Organisation (DRDO)got two team awards of Rs. 5.0 lakh each from Defence Minister Shri A.K.Antony today during DRDO Award Ceremony in  New Delhi.

            The first award was for Development of Plastic Bonded Explosive (PBX) for Advanced Warhead. The scientists of TBRL have developed a new explosive called Plastic Bonded Explosive which is powerful, thermally stable and mechanically stronger than the existing TNT based melt cast explosives. During the last one year the processing conditions have been optimized to produce PBX explosive charges of required dimensions to the desired mechanical tolerances. The performance of new explosive has successfully been  evaluated under different environmental conditions and has been found to meet all the operational requirements. The new Plastic Bonded Explosive will make the warhead to be safer during storage, transportation and usage. The “Special Award for Strategic Contributions” was received by Dr Manjit Singh, Director, TBRL on behalf of the team during DRDO Award Ceremony.

            The second award was for the development of Explosively Formed Projectile (EFP) a very innovative technology for first time in the country to design a Multi-EFP warhead for Interceptor Missile in order to overcome the limitations of conventional fragment generator warhead. Multi-EFP is a new concept in the area of Directional Warhead Technology. This warhead works on the principle that a large number of hemispherical section liners of ductile material, backed by high explosive, invert inside out on detonation of high explosive in the form of projectiles.

These projectiles possess very high velocity in the range of 2 – 3 km/sec and high penetration in comparison to fragmenting type of warheads to defeat the high velocity aerial targets. The multi-EFP technology can be very well used to design warheads for Surface to Surface Missiles to defeat large concentration of soft skinned targets, warheads for Anti Ship Missile and Anti Aircraft Missiles. The warheads based on this technology can be effectively used in Active Protection System for Main Battle Tanks (MBT), Naval Ships and ground based soft skin as well as armoured targets .

This innovative work of “Path Breaking Research/ Outstanding Technology Development” has been awarded and award was received by Dr D. R. Saroha on behalf of his team during DRDO Award function at Delhi.