Rod producing warhead

Claim 1

A FRANGIBLE ROD PRODUCING WARHEAD COMPRISING A HOLLOW CYLINDRICAL CASING FOR RETAINING A HIGH EXPLOSIVE CHARGE THEREIN, A PLURALITY OF ANGULAR AXIAL GROOVES FORMED IN EQUISPACED RELATION ABOUT THE PERIPHERY OF SAID CASING, EACH OF SAID GROOVES BEING DEFINED BY A PAIR OF INTERSECTING PLANAR SURFACES EXTENDING THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH OF SAID CASING, AND A PLURALITY OF COMPLEMENTARY ANGULAR GROOVES EQUAL IN NUMBER TO SAID FIRST-NAMED GROOVES AND ARRANGED AXIALLY IN THE INNER CIRCUMFERENCE OF SAID CASING IN EQUISPACED RELATION TO FORM A CIRCULAR SERRATED INTERIOR WALL, SAID COMPLEMENTARY GROOVES EACH BEING DEFINED BY A SECOND PAIR OF MUTUALLY INTERSECTING PLANAR SURFACES EXTENDING THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH OF SAID CASING, SAID COMPLEMENTARY GROOVES EACH HAVING AN ANGLE BETWEEN SAID SECOND PAIR OF PLANAR SURFACES GREATER THAN THE ANGLE BETWEEN THE FIRST-NAMED PAIR OF PLANAR SURFACES AND ARRANGED IN RADIALLY STAGGERED AND EQUALLY SPACED ARRANGEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE FIRST-NAMED GROOVES TO FORM A PLURALITY OF LIKE PLANES OF NATURAL SHEAR WITHIN THE CASING BETWEEN EACH OF THE AXIALLY DISPOSED LINES FORMED BY THE INTERSECTION OF SAID SECOND PAIRS OF INTERSECTING PLANAR SURFACES AND THE AXIALLY DISPOSED LINES FORMED BY THE INTERSECTION OF THE FIRST-NAMED PAIRS OF PLANAR SURFACES IN CLOSEST PROXIMATE SPACED RELATION WITH RESPECT THERETO, WHEREBY THE CASING IS FRAGMENTIZED INTO A PLURALITY OF ROD-LIKE ELEMENTS CORRESPONDING IN NUMBER TO THE NUMBER OF SAID GROOVES AS THE WARHEAD IS BURST BY SAID EXPLOSIVE CHARGE AND THE RODS FLY OUTWARDLY THEREFROM AT HIGH VELOCITY IN A PREDETERMINED UNIFORM PATTERN AS THE CASING IS BURST.