Description
The E118 was developed during an effort to produce self-dispersing bomblets for use with high-speed missiles. The E118 is a nine-ribbed, 5.25-inch diameter spherical GB munition with a plastic outer shell and a steel inner shell. The E118 was intended to replace the E54R6 for use in the interim cluster adapter for the Corporal missile. The optimum bomblet diameter was smaller and the establishment for the E130 requirement obsoleted the E118.
The final E118 Spherical Bomblet design employed a cylindrical burster between two T1027 centrifugally armed all-ways impact fuzes. The burster and fuzes were contained within a burster well which was located parallel and concentric with the axis of spin. Surrounding the burster well was an annular synthetic rubber tube which acted as a void control. The agent was contained between the synthetic tube and the spherical steel shell. Attached to the inner surface of the steel shell were four vanes or impellers to assist in rotating the liquid. Two hemispherically shaped plastic shells containing nine driving ribs were cemented over the spherical steel shell.
Functioning
No information about functioning.
See Also
Impact, T1027
Source(s)
Old Chemical Weapons and Related Materiel Reference Guide (2018)
