Abstract:
A drive member for the projectile head of a large caliber, multi-purpose cartridge or a multi-purpose training cartridge, wherein a threaded connection is provided for the form-locking connection between the drive member and the projectile head. In order to give such multi-purpose cartridges or corresponding multi-purpose training cartridges a modular configuration, with their assembly taking place only at their location of use, the drive member is provided with radial bores that start at its outer edge or periphery at its end facing the projectile head. Before joining the projectile head and the drive member, a holding and clamping device is then introduced into these bores so as to securely hold the drive member when the respective projectile head is screwed to the drive member.
Abstract:
A wall of, for example, a bombshelter or armored vehicle, is provided with an inner and outer armor spaced from each other. This armor protection is designed to provide a deflection, respectively destruction of an impacting projectile as soon as the projectile nose has penetrated the outer armor. The arrangement is designed to permit only a relative minor destruction of the outer armor in the impacted region, so that those regions adjoining the impacted region maintain their protective structural integrity.This object is achieved in that in the partial chambers which are divided by transverse walls defining closed intermediate chambers between both armors there is disposed a material insert which explodes or bursts as a result of the penetration of the projectile, for example, a material insert consisting of an explosive, glass or ceramic material. The outer armor consists of plates which are overlappingly arranged at one of the adjoining sides and which swing outwardly.These plates can be suspended by means of hinges A on a post E of the outer armor and can be held in position by means of shear pins C at their opposite sides. The material insert G is disposed between the outer and inner armor.
Abstract:
An improved nose construction for a subcaliber inertial projectile which isired with the aid of a sabot. A hood or body is mounted on the nose portion of the projectile. The hood is made of synthetic material and includes longitudinally extending fracture zones and is of substantially cylindrical shape. The frontal portion of the hood is recessed and forms an air flow receiving surface. In lieu of a hood a body, made of a thermoplastic material or the like, may be mounted on the nose portion. This body is adapted to disintegrate as result of air friction. The presence of the hood or body on the nose portion of the projectile, as it exits from a non-illustrated gun barrel, avoids or at least reduces unfavorable air-streaming forces which destabilize the flight characteristics of the projectile and thereby favors a uniform separation of the sabot segments from the projectile. Such uniform separation reduces or completely eliminates undesirable oscillations during flight of the projectile. After the hood or body have disintegrated the projectile acquires a more favorable c.sub.w value (drag coefficient during flight.
Abstract:
A weapon system (1) having a weapon (2) with a weapon tube (3) and having an electronic system (4) for generating aiming signals for an aiming system (7) connected to the weapon (2). To ensure that the current weapon properties or tube properties are also considered in a simple manner for the determination of the aiming signals, the respective weapon-specific data are stored on a chip card (13) associated with the weapon (2) and are transferred via a chip card reader (11) to the corresponding electronic system (4) required for the determination of the aiming signals. During this process, the weapon-specific data are updated on the chip card at predetermined time intervals.
Abstract:
A subcaliber projectile including a penetrator preferably made of tungsteneavy metal, and having a penetrator tip section and a section following thereafter and extending over the major portion of the penetrator length which is provided with an external thread (helical groove) or circumferential annular grooves to provide a form-locking connection with a discardable propelling cage sabot. To realize improved piercing power for the penetrator, the form-locking region is composed of annular grooves without a pitch, or of a fine metric thread having a thread valley, with a width of approximately one to three times the base width of the groove defining wall or of a thread peak. Preferably a more brittle material is employed in the front penetrator region than in the tail region, and a further indentation structure is incorporated in the first frontal thread turns or grooves of the form-locking region.
Abstract:
A warhead (10') which includes a shaped or projectile forming charge in the form of a liner (14) of a multi-phase metallic material or a metal-metal laminate. To prevent the liner (14) from being destroyed by the incoming shock wave and make impossible the formation of a projectile, that is, a shaped charge jet, a layer (15) is arranged, in front of the liner (14) on the side of the explosive, with the layer (15) causing the shock wave front to be flattened and damped and having an acoustic impedance which is lower than that of the liner (14).
Abstract:
An improved liner for a warhead having a shaped explosive charge for the production of a projectile by explosive reshaping of the liner includes a liner body having a central region which has a radius of curvature which is smaller than that of a surrounding liner portion. The central region of the liner is indented relative to the surrounding liner portion along a central axis of the liner body toward the side of the liner adjacent the shaped explosive charge. Upon explosive reshaping of the liner, a projectile having an ogival shape is produced.
Abstract:
A composite armor-piercing subcaliber projectile has a front projectile part generally centered on an axis and having a rearwardly extending cylindrical sleeve of predetermined outer diameter and also generally centered on the axis and a rear projectile part centered on the axis and having a cylindrical outer surface substantially of the outer diameter and having a small-diameter forwardly extending projection fitting complementarily within the sleeve. An explosive charge between the front and rear parts can be detonated, as for example by a proximity fuse, to push the front part axially forward away from the rear part. The front part and sleeve can be unitary. In addition the front part can be tubular and centered on the axis. Furthermore the sleeve can be separate from the front and rear parts and have a front tube centered on the axis and at least partially containing the front part, a rear tube also centered on the axis and at least partially containing the rear part, and a central crosswise partition separating the tubes. It is even possible for the rear part to have a forward extension that projects through a tubular front part, serving during separation to guide the front part and serving thereafter to ballistically guide the projectile.
Abstract:
A projectile arrangement for a gun barrel weapon having a plurality of sub-caliber projectiles which are mounted on a common sabot which is composed of a plurality of segments. These projectiles are designed for a sequential flight one behind the other at predetermined distances and along a common flight path and are joined to each other by means of a wire. The leading projectile deactivates a detonating charge upon impacting on a target region of a "actively armored" target, so that the next following projectiles can become target-effective without being disturbed.
Abstract:
A weapon system includes a weapon having a chamber; a data input device; an aiming mechanism; and an ammunition unit that can be fired with the weapon. The ammunition unit includes a data memory for storing ammunition-specific data; and a microcontroller arranged on or in the ammunition unit and being connected, when the ammunition unit is inside the chamber of weapon, to the data input device, the aiming mechanism and the data memory. The microcontroller determines aiming signals necessary to control the aiming mechanism as a function of ammunition-specific, target-specific, and weapon-specific data transmitted to the microcontroller. The microcontroller transmits the aiming signals to the aiming mechanism.