Demolition Charges DIRECTORS of VUPCH Aircraft Rescue Systems

Military Aircraft Rescue Systems

Semtex® RAZOR
Semtex® Pl SE M Canopy Severance System - KRYT
Systematic development from 1955
- Special thermoplastic explosive
- Many forms - basicaly in sheets
- Three types (PETN, PETN/RDX, RDX) Designed for AERO light (combat) aircrafts) Quick and safe clearance of catapulting path or quick creating the
- Base explosive for demolition charges L-29, L-39, L-139, L-59, L-159 ALCA emergency exit from aircraft

The system consists of Minimum level pressure and noise effect

- Flexible Linear Shaped Charges
Semtex® Pl SE M LCT
- 7 types (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40 - mm of steel) URM-1 or URM-1M - Under seat rocket motor
- Cutting tapes
- Adhesive layer for better contact
- Adhesive layer for better contact ROP - Rocket motor for canopy ejection
- Possible vertical or horizontal bending PP-POP - Pyrotechnic cartridge for activation of canopy Civil Aircraft Rescue Systems
- 4 types (20, 55, 205, 740 - grams per meter) Dr. František Krejčí, CSc.
ejection mechanism
1954 - 1955
PP-TVM - Pyrotechnic cartridge for activation of ejection
BREACHCASE - BC25 telescope Designed for ultralight aircrafts
- Based on RAZOR 25 PP-GP - Pyrotechnic cartridge for activation of pyromechanism
- Breaching the hole in brick of rescue system
or concrete wall For emergency parachute ejection
- Hole dimensions 1 x 0.5 m
PP-VVPR - Pyrotechnic cartridge for activation of pilot
- Man portable fastening system
VMP-2M - Pyrotechnic cartridge for activation of parachute
GRS

MAGNUM 450
Semtex® RAZOR Booster MAGNUM 250
- Booster charges primary for ignition of RAZOR Charges
- Adhesive layer for better contact
- 6 grams of thermoplastic explosive Pl TE M DISINTEGRATOR 13 DISINTEGRATOR 50
- For opening or liquidation potentially dangerous objects Ing. Žalský Josef
- Possible use as small demolition charge
1956 - 1961
MAGNUM 600

MAGNUM 1000
MAGNUM 1500

Ing. Boris Vetlický, CSc.

1961 - 1985

Large Caliber Ammunition Test Facilities Tests:

125mm APFSDS ammunition for MBT Ballistic laboratory  Accredited from 2001 by CAI
155mm MODULAR PROPELLING CHARGES
- Full combustible charges for 155mm systems - For variants of T-72 Main Battle Tanks History: • Projectile velocity
- Useful for 39, 45 or 52 calibers barrels - International developments • first shot in October 17th, 1924 • Maximum pressure
- More than 25 years of systematic development - PpSv97 VETRA in Czech Army service • 50m rifle range • Pressure development in the
- P99 TAPNA in Slovak Army service • cannon range with 1 tunnel chamber
1st GENERATION of MODULAR CHARGE SYSTEM - Penetration capability more than 500 mm of steel in 2000 m • Action time
• EPVAT
- Three types of modular charges
• Closed vessel tests
- Modules A and B for range from 5 to 15 km Ing. Jiří Tůma, DrSc. Present:
- Module D for range up to 40 km 1985 - 1990 • rebuilding in 1988 Standards:
• 50m rifle range • MC MOPI
• 100m middle-caliber range • MIL, STANAG
• cannon range with 2 tunnels
• test barrels in 100 calibers from .22LR to 125 tank
barrel
• universal breech UZ 67 and UZ 2002
• piezotransducers KISTLER 6215 and 6213B
• 67 guns in ballistic laboratory’s armory
 submachine gun Z-Brno ZK 383 – 1938
 snipers gun MOSIN 9130
• 1 221 samples and 25 000 shots per year Explosives test room
BIMODULAR CHARGE SYSTEM (BMCS) History: Present:
- 2nd Generation • start by establish Research Institute • production control
- Two types of modular charges • 1967 – 1968 experimental mine drift for • experimental samples testing
permitted explosives testing (Synthesit, • cooperate with Czech Police or Czech
- BC-E for low-zones
ER AMMUNITION for 152mm SPGH DANA Semtinit, Uhlometanit, Ostravit) Proof House for Arms and Ammunition
- TC-F for high-zones
- Developed in 2012 Ing. Bedřich Štefan
- Without the modification necessity of the system of 1990 - 1992 Accredited Laboratory of safety engineering
automatic loading Rocket range Tests:
- Separate loading ammunition • BAM fall-hammer test
Tests: • Friction test
- 152 mm OFdDV (HE ER BB) shell • measurement of generators thrust and pressure (ballistic tests of • Thermal stability test at 75°C
- Propelling charge P740 rocket motors, pyrocartridges etc.) • Fulmination point test
- Range 25,500 m (25 % more than standard HE) • Determination of sensitivity to external thermal stimulus -
Products: Koenen test
• aircraft rescuing systems • Determination of ability of a substance to propagate
• pyrocartridges, rocket motors detonation - UN GAP test
• Test of mass explosion capacity - Single package test
• External fire test
• Unconfined package test
• Twelve meters drop test
• DSC, DTA
• Determination of detonation propagation

Ing. Tomáš Král

1992 - 1993

Ballistics Protection Mechanical Engineering

BALLISTICS SIMULATORS and CLOSED VESSELS
Reactive Armor DYNA Active Protection System EFA - Developed and realized from seventies of last century
Task - Development and construction of technological devices - Closed vessels for smokeless powder production
Developed in 1998 in cooperation with Military Repair Facility in Developed from 2002 in cooperation with Military Research Institute in Brno. Ing. Miroslav Horáček, CSc. Cutters - Different volumes
Novy Jicin and with Military Technical Institute in Slavicin 1993 - 2002 Rollers - For low and high pressures
Designed for light combat vehicles - OT-64, BVP-1, BVP-2, KBVP PANDUR II. Dryers
- Special ballistics simulators
Explosive Reactive Armor designed for T-72 M4CZ MBT Mixers Black-box testing
In Czech Army service Hard-kill protection against RPGs and ATGMs. Engines Aircraft rescue systems testing
Pressing forms
Protection against shaped charges Countermeasure charges based on direction of energy of explosion ...
- Development and construction of test devices
Effective against tandem SC warheads Ballistics simulators
Closed Vessels
...
- Special construction
Penetration capability of PG-7 warhead (~300 mm) Reactive armor elements
Rapid fire-extinguishing systems
...

Ing. Lehký Ladislav, CSc.

2002 - 2010 LABORATORY FLUIDIZERS FBF EXPRO - RAPID FIRE-EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM
- Developed and realized in eighties of last century - Developed and realized in nineties of last century
- FBF200 and FBF400 models - For rapid fire-extinguishing and preventing of explosion
- For drying, cooling, granulation, homogenization... in internal parts of technological installations
Numerical model of
interaction between - Installed in Czech companies (Synthesia, ALPIQ, Vitana)
ERA and SC jet

T-72 M4CZ with DYNA ERA

Residual penetration of
PG-7 after interaction
with DYNA ERA

Ing. Ladislav Velehradský, Ph.D.

2010 - .

DYNA elements
KBVP PANDUR II with test parts of APS LEFA

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