Overview

Braided textile explosive cord products represent the earliest origins of Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company. These products utilize an explosive or pyrotechnic core, surrounded by a braided layer of a textile yarn. Many of these products then include a polymer or wax over jacket to provide water resistance. This basic construction gives textile cord products the look and feel of rope. EBA&D also supplies detonating cord assemblies that incorporate initiation provisions as well as booster output charges.

Application

Textile cord products are used for a wide variety of applications in the defense community. Many EBA&D systems utilize detonating cord as a key component of their assembly, such as the APOBS line charge and SAPLIC line charge. In addition, explosive nets using detonating cord have demonstrated the capability for wide path mine clearance. Other common applications of textile cord products include Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Breaching Systems, Explosive Testing, Ignition Delay, and several other general demolition applications. These products provide a controlled burn rate and energetic output to ensure mission to mission repeatability.

Design Considerations

Textile cord explosive and pyrotechnic products are heritage products that have wide applicability. Depending on the application, these products can be used in a cut-to-fit mode to provide flexibility. Explosive loading can be tightly controlled and maintained in low coreload to high coreload products. PBX based detonating cords can be used as part of systems requiring Insensitive Munition (IM) classification. Standard initiation and output interfaces are well characterized to minimize the risk in new application scenarios. With the expertise of the EBA&D technical staff, system assemblies and cord networks can be developed to meet a wide range of overall system requirements.

Textile Cord Products

• Standard Detonating Cords
• PBX Detonating Cords
• Detonating Cord Assemblies
• Safety Fuse

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