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The
shaped charge creates a breach in the ship armor allowing the explosive payload
of the Exocet to penetrate into the vessel before the time delayed fuse detonates the explosive.
Apparently the shaped charge worked as designed blowing an entrance into the vessel but both
the time delayed and proximity fuses failed to initiate the explosive payload.
http://docfoualier.free.fr/exocet.pdf
The missile is divided into four modular parts:
[excerpt]
-Section 2
contains the warhead which is common to all versions. It is a 165-kg shaped charge with
fragmentation and incendiary effects. The explosive employed is Hexolite. It is initiated by a delay
fuse which allow the missile to penetrate the outer hull of the ship before blowing up. A proximity
fused is fitted as a back-up fuse if the missile overfly its target, then causing extensive damage to
the bridge, antennas and potentially aircrafts on deck.[/excerpt]
I'm not sure if we are at cross purposes here.....but the exocet does not use the shaped charge to peirce the side of the ship.....
"-Section 2 contains the warhead which is common to all versions. It is a 165-kg shaped charge with
fragmentation and incendiary effects. The explosive employed is Hexolite. It is initiated by a delay
fuse which allow the missile to penetrate the outer hull of the ship before blowing up. A proximity
fused is fitted as a back-up fuse if the missile overfly its target, then causing extensive damage to
the bridge, antennas and potentially aircrafts on deck."
Only one charge and it is detonated AFTER the missile has pierced the side of the ship using KE only