ABSTRACT
Deut to new and changing applications, modern energetic materials and compositions have to
fulfill sophisticated and even opposite features regarding to performance, sensitivity
vulnerability and stability, ect. Energetic materials for military applications include secondary
explosive, gun propellant s, sold rocket propellants and pyrotechnic compositions. One of the
ways to improve the above mentioned characteristics of the applied energetic materials is the
application of polymeric materials as a basic component in its formulations. Since the end of
WW II, the art was based on application of thermoplastic polymeric materials, followed by
thermoset polymers and nowadays the work based on application of energetic polymeric
materials. This paper is based on describing the history of application of polyme ric as a basic
component in improved energetic compositions and describing the future and polymer role in
improvement of mechanical, performance, sensitivity, stability and vulnerability of the based
energetic materials and compositions.