Evaluation of energetic potential of some tetrazine oxides as components of gun propellants. I. Two-component compositions

Thermodynamic evaluation of the possibility of using furazanotetrazine dioxide and tetrazinotetrazine tetroxide in two-component compositions with different binders as gun propellants has been carried out. Such compositions allow very high force values, 1750 kJ/kg or more. But this is achieved at the cost of extremely high temperature of combustion products, above 5000 K, which is completely unacceptable for barrel systems. By increasing the binder content it is possible to reduce the temperature of gases to an acceptable level. However, the inevitable drop of force allows to consider such compositions only as mortar propellants, and for other systems the obtained compositions do not exceed the known ones in efficiency.