Indian Scientist at DRDO have developed most powerful non-nuclear explosive known so far .........
DRDO Scientists at Pune-based High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) have developed CL-20 which is the most powerful non-nuclear explosive known so far . A few countries with advanced capabilities in the field of energetic materials have developed such explosive .
ICL-20 can substantially reduce the weight and size of the warhead while causing more damage .
It is 4 times more powerful than RDX and some 15 times more powerful than the average explosives .
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Indian CL-20
A new high explosive is in the making at a DRDO lab here that could replace other standard explosives of the armed forces such as RDX, HMX, FOX-7 and Amorphous Boron. Scientists at the Pune-based High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) have already synthesised adequate quantity of CL-20, the new explosive, in their laboratory.
The powerful explosive can substantially reduce the weight and size of the warhead while packing much more punch.The compound, 'Indian CL-20' or 'ICL-20', was indigenously developed in HEMRL using inverse technology.
CL-20, so named after the China Lake facility of the Naval Air Weapons Station in California, US, was first synthesised by Dr Arnold Nielson in 1987.
CL-20 or Octa-Nitro-Cubane is a Nitramine class of explosive 15 times as powerful as HMX.
HMX itself is more than four times as potent as
RDX.
CL-20-based Shaped Charges significantly improve the penetration over armors and could potentially be used in the bomb for the 120-mm main gun mounted on the MBT Arjun tanks. The CL-20 is its reduced sensitivity enables easy handling and transportation and reduces the chances of mishap and loss to men, money, materials and machines.
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