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RE: EFP Warhead.
I don't know about viable, but it would be doable. The Navy took out a patent late 60s-early 70s where they had a warhead surrounded by detonators. Depending on wherethe target was in relation to the missile when it went by, the detonators would supposedly sequence to direct the blast in the right direction. I would doubt you'd want an EFP for air-to-air, as EFPs were conceived for cracking hard targets. EFP effectiveness is also very dependent on distance to target. Some anti-tank weapons use top-down attack with a WH that shoots downward over the target where the armor is ostensibly thinner among othrer things. I think your logic is sound concerning fractional explosive/shrapnel weight possibilities if you could direct damage where you wanted to, but the benefit may be eaten up by the structural, mechanical, and control system complexity added to steer and command the warhead. On an air-to-ground system, you could just fly the missile so it was a certain side up and send blast fragments and heat in the desired direction.
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