Ogival lens warhead

Claim 1

An explosive missile warhead for producing a spray blast toward a target, operable to be aimed without physical rotation of the warhead and fired in any given direction about the axis of symmetry, comprising: a. an inhomogeneous ogive shaped explosive lens having a circular base and ogive sides; b. said explosive lens consisting of a plurality of spheroidal explosive shells about a spheroidal explosive core all having their axis of symmetry coaxial; c. the sides of the inner said explosive shells being in the form of prolate spheroids; d. a plurality of detonators mounted and spaced about the circumference of the circular base of said ogive shaped explosive lens for initiating said explosive lens; e. fire control means for selecting and firing any of said detonators upon command; f. said ogive shaped explosive lens operable to be aimed by selectively firing a detonator on the opposite side of the warhead from the desired direction of aim; g. said explosive lens warhead upon detonation of any one of said detonators operable to cause detonation waves to progress from the point of detonation through the entire warhead detonating all the explosive therein such that the detonation waves are focused and converge on a line on the opposite curved surface lying in a plane which passes through the axis of symmetry of the ogive shaped explosive, thus providing a spray blast of warhead fragments in an arc outward from said surface along said line in the direction of aim.