Tungsten alloy warhead is well-known in military field now. You know, warhead is a very important component of armor-piercing projectiles, rocket projectiles, and missiles that can kill and destroy enemy weapons and equipment, facilities, and enemy effectives. Tungsten alloy is widely used in various warhead materials because of their unique properties, such as high density, high melting point, high strength, and good machinability.

Tungsten alloy has become a new type of shaped charge liner material with wide application prospects due to its high melting point, high density, high sound velocity, good ductility, and good machining performance. The components of tungsten alloy material for preparing shaped charge liner material include W-Ni-Fe, W-Ni-Cu, and the like.

Rocket projectile is usually composed of a warhead, a rocket engine, and a stabilizer. And tungsten alloy such as W-Ni-Fe or W-Ni-Cu alloy balls are used in the warhead of rocket projectile. It has been reported that the warhead of the dual-purpose cluster bombs in the WS-2 rocket projectiles adopt tungsten alloy material. Its attack accuracy is very high and the attack range can reach 360 kilometers.

Tungsten alloy shotgun bullet is small. Generally, there are some spherical projectiles. At that time, from the perspective of density and hardness, lead was considered a suitable material for shotgun bullet. However, shotguns are used for hunting animals. If toxic lead bullets are used, it seems that the hunted prey is not so “safe” for eating. While tungsten alloy is non-toxic, environmentally friendly and pollution-free, so it is developed to replace traditional heavy metal lead as the projectile material.