The DIME concept resembles the highly-fragmenting home-defense pistol ammunition made of dense metal in an epoxy binder. The point being that the round expends its energy rapidly --after hitting a target, for the pistol ammunition, or after a certain distance in air, for the DIME.

For both there should be less 'richochet'.

I wonder what applications there are to DIME in space for anti-satellite work. I also imagine that shaped charges ---kind of the antithesis of DIME-- can go farther in space, which would make for some wild hypervelocity shootouts.