Armor Penetration Testing of Shaped Charge Warheads

Left: Fuzes sit on a table at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama. The fuzes were removed from M56 rocket warheads for testing in the Anniston Static Detonation Chamber (SDC) unit. The test results will help determine rocket process times and expectations for the two SDC units at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant. Right: The scrap from processing test rocket warheads in the Anniston SDC lies in boxes at the Anniston Army Depot. Technicians processed simulated rocket warheads in the Anniston SDC to determine rocket process times and expectations for the two SDC units at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (source: https://www.peoacwa.army.mil/2022/10/27/simulated-warheads-prepared-for-systems-testing/).