Anti-Personnel Obstacle Breaching System with Rigidized Raceway (APOBS-R2)

Dynovas’ Variable-Angle and Optimal Deployment for Anti-Personnel Obstacle Breaching Systems (APOBS-R2) provides a new radical set of tactical capabilities designed to improve the Warfighter’s ability to deploy a line charge and create a footpath through anti-personnel obstacles by directing the soldier to the optimal deployment angle of the breaching system and ensuring the charges are deployed in a straight line. provides a radical new set of tactical capabilities engineered to augment the existing technology and enable an efficient, ergonomic, and repeatable linear deployment of line charges to create safe pathways through anti-personnel obstacles. Specifically, the proposed APOBS-R2 will provide two novel key innovations including (1) a go/no-go variable angle launch system to accommodate non-level surface deployment sites, and (2) a passively deployable and self-rigidizing guide structure to reliably enforce straight linear deployments of line charges. Collectively these innovations will provide the warfighter dependable and trustworthy obstacle clearing technology that will mitigate misfire, unsafe deployment scenarios, and improve safety of the Warfighter through targeting redesign and augmentation of the existing APOBS. Development of the APBOS-R2 technology will be executed by a team possessing heritage in high-performance deployable structures, advanced composites, aerospace technologies, and across all aspects of engineering related design, manufacturing, analysis, and testing. Dynovas aligned the APOBS-R2 development effort in collaboration with expressly interested Prime Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company (EBAD) to solidify a team that encompasses additional areas of expertise in explosive packaging, large scale manufacturing, as well as the development, testing, and integration of breaching systems.