Standard Missile Block IV Battery

Author

Martin, Jeff

Author_Institution

Div. of Electron., Eagle-Picher Ind. Inc., Joplin, MO, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

9-12 Jan 1996

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

71

Abstract

During the 1980s a trend in automatic primary battery technologies was the replacement of silver-zinc batteries by thermal battery designs. The Standard Missile (SM 2) Block IV development is a noteworthy reversal of this trend. The SM 2, Block IV battery was originally attempted as a thermal battery with multiple companies attempting to develop a thermal battery design. These attempts resulted in failure to obtain a production thermal battery. A decision to pursue a silver-zinc battery design resulted in the development of a battery to supply the SM 2, Block IV (thermal battery design goal) and also the projected power requirements of the evolving SM 2, Block IVA in a single silver-zinc battery design. Several advancements in silver-zinc battery technology were utilized in this design that improve the producibility and extend the boundaries of silver-zinc batteries

Keywords

missiles; primary cells; silver; zinc; Ag-Zn; SM 2 Block IV battery; Standard Missile Block IV Battery; automatic primary battery technologies; projected power requirements; silver-zinc batteries; thermal battery; Batteries; Cranes; Manufacturing; Missiles; Production; Samarium; Standards development; Temperature distribution; Testing; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Battery Conference on Applications and Advances, 1996., Eleventh Annual

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2994-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BCAA.1996.484972

Filename

484972