and die punching or also by rolling or extrusion process in this manner when the disks or slabs are stacked flame easily spreads between the layers in addition to through the stack these processes will ensure accurate and repeatable control of web and perforation size and location than was formerly possible disks or slabs processed in the manner of the present invention will produce very progressive burning with high accuracy and repeatability disk or slab thickness can be formed to give an acceptable high perforation length to diameter ratio ensuring that the individual disk or slab burns with the progressive manner as desired using a typical 120 mm cannon cartridge as an example not limitation it can be seen that loading propellant in accordance with the invention results in a tremendous increase in the amount of propellant available to fire the projectile this can readily be translated into improved ammunition muzzle velocity and higher target accuracy as previously stated the typical 120 mm cartridge loaded with round stick contains 18 pounds of propellant with hexagonally shaped grains 17 pounds and utilizing a disk load in accordance with the present invention this may be increased to 25 pounds which is definitely a significant improvement it has been found that the processing of the propellant in accordance with the present invention is lower cost than that associated with extruding.