| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5744746 |
Tandem warhead for combatting active targets |
April 28, 1998 |
| A tandem warhead for combatting actively armored targets including two shaped or projectile forming charges arranged one behind the other, and an ignition or firing delay unit which causes the ignition of the first charge and then the second charge with a time delay. To avoid the target' |
| 5564651 |
Yaw angle free projectile |
October 15, 1996 |
| A fin stabilized projectile for combatting a tank from above of the type including a rotating control unit disposed at the front of the projectile and containing a sensor for scanning the area to detect a target, and wherein the final phase of flying into the target is initiated by a for |
| 5559304 |
Insert for a warhead |
September 24, 1996 |
| The invention relates to an insert for a warhead for producing a projectile by means of an explosive deformation of the insert.In order to achieve increased end-ballistic performances of the projectile formed by the explosive deformation of the insert, such insert is tapered at its perip |
| 5481981 |
Sabot for a subcaliber projectile |
January 9, 1996 |
| A sabot for a subcaliber projectile, preferably an arrow projectile, having an essentially cylindrical guide gage (8) of a lightweight material and a tail-side drive element (14) detachably connected thereto for tail-side support of the projectile body (1). The guide cage (8) has a radia |
| 5477786 |
Subcaliber arrow projectile |
December 26, 1995 |
| A subcaliber arrow projectile includes a projectile body which has a rearwardly widening, conical projectile tip having a forward point and a rearward base, whose caliber corresponds to the projectile caliber. The projectile body further has a rearwardly widening, resistance-stabilizing |
| 5476581 |
Method of producing a weapon barrel having a wear-resistant inner coating |
December 19, 1995 |
| A method of producing a weapon barrel (1) having a wear-resistant inner coating (10) applied by an electrolytic method. To enable the application of a relatively thick protective layer to the inner wall or surface of a large-caliber weapon barrel (1), in particular, in the regions of |
| 5467713 |
Ignition and safty device for a grenade projectile provided with a shaped charge insert |
November 21, 1995 |
| An ignition and safety device for a grenade projectile provided with a shaped charge insert and having a bottom-side impact fuse that has a spin-dependent safety element and acceleration-dependent safety element (14, 17), and a self-destruct device. The self-destruct device includes a |
| 5463930 |
Device for firing practice ammunition |
November 7, 1995 |
| A weapon for firing practice ammunition includes a barrel having a frontal length portion terminating in a muzzle; an ammunition loading chamber at a barrel end opposite the muzzle; and a plurality of first gas outlet bores provided in the frontal length portion. The first gas outlet bor |
| 5461962 |
Gun silencer arrangement |
October 31, 1995 |
| A silencer arrangement for large-caliber guns (3;33,34) including at least one silencer (5;54,55). In order for the system characteristics of the gun (3;33,34) not to be negatively influenced by the heavy weight of the silencer (5;54,55), the silencer is not fastened (5;54,55), as in the |
| 5459914 |
Method of sealing the front of a cylindrical sleeve body of a practice cartridge |
October 24, 1995 |
| A method of closing the forward portion or region (u) of a cylindrical sleeve body (3) of a practice cartridge (1), wherein a predetermined number of inside and outside radial folds (8, 7, respectively) are created in the forward region (4) of the sleeve body (3) in two work cycles, and |
| 5443009 |
Charge arrangement for cartridge ammunition |
August 22, 1995 |
| A charge arrangement for cartridge ammunition having a cartridge case, a bottom igniter secured in the case bottom and a primer that coaxially surrounds at least one part of the propellant composed of bulk powder and a tail-side part of a projectile that projects into the cartridge case. |
| 5438930 |
Mine |
August 8, 1995 |
| The invention relates to a mine with at least one ejectable sub-munitions body disposed in a cup-shaped starting device and with a propulsion device for propelling the sub-munitions body into a selectable altitude range. For achieving that the propulsion device requires only a small stru |
| 5433399 |
Device for guiding a missile |
July 18, 1995 |
| The invention relates to a device for guiding a missile (1; 30) with a missile tip (2) and a cylindrical section (3) adjoining the tip of the missile; the device is provided with at least one control block (4; 31, 32) with exhaust openings (13-15) of corresponding nozzle bodies (10-12) |
| 5426568 |
Launch-protected electronic assembly |
June 20, 1995 |
| A launch-protected electronic assembly including a printed circuit board having several conductor paths. An electronic component is provided that is secured to the printed circuit board. The electronic component has several electrical connections each contacting a corresponding conductor |
| 5419272 |
Explosive cutter for mine moorings |
May 30, 1995 |
| An explosive cutter for severing a mooring of a moored mine includes a securing apparatus for attaching the explosive cutter to a mooring and for detaching the explosive cutter from an underwater vessel. The securing apparatus includes a mooring capturing jaw; a clamping lever having a |
| 5400714 |
Large-caliber two part ammunition unit |
March 28, 1995 |
| A method and an apparatus for producing a large-caliber ammunition unit including a combustible or partially combustible propelling charge casing and compacted or partially compacted propelling charge powder, to increase internal ballistic performance. It is known to partially or complet |
| 5396845 |
Modular fuze |
March 14, 1995 |
| A fuze or igniter provided with an adjustable electronic unit (24), a separate energy supply (40) as well as a mechanical safety device (26). In order for this fuze to be independent of the weapons system and not be bound to a particular type of payload, the adjustable electronic unit (2 |
| 5375526 |
Fuze mechanism for projectiles, rockets, bomblets and mines having a pyrotechnic self-destruct m |
December 27, 1994 |
| A fuze mechanism (1) for projectiles, rockets, bomblets and mines which is of the type including a fuze housing (2) and a self-destruct device containing a pyrotechnic delay arrangement (10) and a firing pin (11), with the fuze housing (2) having a side opening (5) for a transversely |
| 5375517 |
Method and apparatus for screen printing |
December 27, 1994 |
| An apparatus for screen printing on a thin, curved steel hybrid board includes a receiving frame having a nest for seating the board therein; and a magnet accommodated in the receiving frame for maintaining the board in a flattened state during the screen printing operation. |
| 5353679 |
Circulating ammunition magazine |
October 11, 1994 |
| A circulating magazine including a housing (1) in which mutually articulated parallel ammunition containers (5;5') are disposed so as to accommodate ammunition (6,6') in an endless, two-layer transporting belt (4) driven by a drive (13;13'). To realize a quasi three-layer arrangement |
| 5347909 |
Device for transmission of electrical signals |
September 20, 1994 |
| In a weapon system having a recoiling component, recoil-free component, a first electronic system disposed on the recoiling component, a second electronic system disposed on the recoil-free component, a trailing cable is continuously electrically connected between the first and second |
| 5340058 |
Projectile with cooled nose cone |
August 23, 1994 |
| A projectile, particularly a kinetic energy projectile, whose nose cone is cooled due to the provision of an ablation layer and a thermal insulation layer (8, 9) on the exterior of the metal hood (4) of the projectile nose cone, and due to a highly thermally conductive medium in the spac |
| 5337504 |
Gun tube |
August 16, 1994 |
| The present invention relates to a gun tube having a spin curve with a variable spin angle as well as a rifling force R(x) over the path of the projectile (x) through the gun tube when a projectile is fired, as well as a predetermined caliber d, projectile mass m.sub.G, mass moment of in |
| 5335599 |
Ammunition unit |
August 9, 1994 |
| A performance enhanced ammunition unit composed of a front ammunition component (1) and a rear ammunition component (2) which each include a combustible propelling charge casing (7, 12), with the rear ammunition component being filled with propelling charge powder that has been compr |
| 5333551 |
Drive member for a large-caliber multi-purpose cartridge and use of such a drive member for the |
August 2, 1994 |
| 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 ca |
| 5331880 |
Wedge-type breechblock for a gun |
July 26, 1994 |
| A wedge-type breechblock is disposed at the breech end of a gun. A cartridge chamber having a length L1 in the wedge-type breechblock accommodates propellant igniters, with obturation being effected by the respective propellant igniters. A firing mechanism operatively disposed at the |
| 5323701 |
Screen printing apparatus |
June 28, 1994 |
| An apparatus for screen printing a conductor pattern on a circuit board blank includes a receiving frame having a nest for seating the circuit board blank. The nest includes a porous stone having a surface for supporting the circuit board blank. Air is drawn through the porous stone |
| 5317543 |
Method and sensor for determining the distance of sound generating targets |
May 31, 1994 |
| A method and to a sensor for determining the distance of sound generating targets, preferably wheeled or track-laying vehicles, from acoustic signals which are subjected to a Fourier transformation. In order to determine the target distance easily and reliably, it is provided that the |
| 5316786 |
Method for the treatment of steel-hybrid printed circuit boards |
May 31, 1994 |
| A method of pre-treating steel-hybrid circuit board substrates or carrier plates before the application of coatings that are to be burnt in or fired. In prior art steel-hybrid circuit boards of this type, the burning-in of the coatings in a kiln produces undesirable warping of the ci |
| 5307724 |
Ejector system and use of the system in large caliber guns |
May 3, 1994 |
| An ejector system for the extraction of cartridge casings from a tubular weapon provided with two ejector levers that are pivotal about an axis. Prior art ejector systems of this type have the drawback in that the ejector claws which pull the cartridge casing out of the cartridge chamber |
| 5297491 |
Casing bottom for a propelling charge casing |
March 29, 1994 |
| A casing bottom or stub casing for a propelling charge casing whose base plate (1) has an exterior or outer surface which is curved inwardly in an annular region (7) so that the casing bottom is able to sufficiently axially expand under the high gas pressure developing during firing |
| 5295428 |
Method of disassembling large-caliber combat cartridges and use of the cartridge components obta |
March 22, 1994 |
| The present invention relates to a method of disassembling large-caliber combat cartridges, particularly armor-piercing cartridges, including a combustible casing jacket that conically widens in the direction of the projectile, a casing bottom and a casing cover to which is fastened a |
| 5294850 |
Electromagnetic accelerator in flat coil arrangement |
March 15, 1994 |
| An electromagnetic accelerator arrangement includes a stationary arrangement including at least one stationary primary coil, and a movable arrangement including at least one moveable secondary coil. The planes of the stationary and the moveable coils are parallel to a direction of mo |
| 5289777 |
Subcaliber kinetic energy projectile |
March 1, 1994 |
| A subcaliber kinetic energy projectile (1) including a penetrator (2) and a segmented sabot (3) which is provided with a front support (4) and with a second support (5) that is disposed at an axial distance behind the first support, with the second support (5) including a rotationally sy |
| 5289776 |
Method and apparatus for producing large-caliber ammunition |
March 1, 1994 |
| A method and an apparatus for producing a large-caliber ammunition unit including a combustible or partially combustible propelling charge casing and compacted or partially compacted propelling charge powder, to increase internal ballistic performance. It is known to partially or complet |
| 5289755 |
Ram head |
March 1, 1994 |
| A ram head for possibly two-part ammunition which is provided at its bottom with a central rotationally symmetrical form-locking zone. In order to be able to unload the ammunition, a housing (1) is provided with a ring (11) that is arranged to be axially displaceable therein and is provi |
| 5289754 |
Redundant ammunition flow device |
March 1, 1994 |
| A redundant ammunition flow device for supplying divided, large caliber ammunition to a loading tray of a gun mounted on a turret of a vehicle for adjustment in elevation about a trunnion includes at least two magazines disposed in the vehicle chassis. Each magazine is a closed loop and |
| 5282423 |
Modular propellant charge |
February 1, 1994 |
| A modular propellant charge (10) composed of N propellant charge modules (1; 11-16) each having a length Lo. In order to obtain an economical, durable, easily released connection between the propellant charge modules (1; 11-16), a displaceable sleeve (6; 17-22) of a length L is axially |
| 5277097 |
Chain rammer |
January 11, 1994 |
| A chain rammer for ammunition includes a ram head, a rammer drive including two drive wheels connectable to a rotary drive for rotating the drive wheels and two separate chain strands each being connected with the ram head and each passing through the rammer drive for being driven in one |
| 5275355 |
Antitank weapon for combating a tank from the top |
January 4, 1994 |
| A projectile for a surface-to-surface weapon to combat a target from the top. The projectile includes a warhead; a propulsion system for accelerating the projectile directly after the projectile is placed in flight; a stabilizing guide assembly; a sensor for detecting a target in a l |
| 5272983 |
Casing bottom for a propelling charge |
December 28, 1993 |
| A casing bottom for a propelling charge including a circular ring shaped (annular) base plate (1) which accommodates a centrally arranged primer sleeve (7) in a form-locking manner. In order to be able to unload ammunition, particularly two-part ammunition including sub-caliber proje |
| 5267503 |
Ammunition transfer device |
December 7, 1993 |
| A device for transferring ammunition from a magazine to a transfer arm of an adjustable weapon rotatable about a trunnion. The transfer arm is movable together with the weapon and tilts up to a maximum predetermined angle (.beta.') during azimuth adjustment of the weapon. Two angle c |
| 5262921 |
Directly cooled circuit board for an electronic power circuit |
November 16, 1993 |
| In order to improve the cooling of one sided circuit boards for electronic power circuits in SMD configuration, the surface (14) of the circuit board (10) which is not provided with circuit components is part of the interior wall of a housing (26) through which flows a liquid coolant and |
| 5259321 |
Propelling cage for a subcaliber projectile |
November 9, 1993 |
| A subcaliber projectile assembly includes a subcaliber projectile; a supporting member engaging the circumferential surface of the projectile; a guide band supported on the supporting member; and a propelling cage supported on the circumferential surface rearwardly of the guide band. The |
| 5259317 |
Hollow charge with detonation wave guide |
November 9, 1993 |
| A warhead having hollow charge, such as a bomblet as well as a large caliber armor-piercing projectile has an improved detonation wave guide arrangement which preferably produces a high pyrophoric effect at target impact.The detonation wave guide itself is made of an incendiary-active (f |
| 5259290 |
Ammunition container |
November 9, 1993 |
| An ammunition container (1) for large caliber ammunition (2) includes two shells (5, 6) that are arranged parallel to the ammunition, with one shell (5) being fixed and the other shell (6) being movable. A rotatable control lever (7, 7') is mounted at least one end (10, 11) of the ammuni |
| 5253588 |
Device for reducing the spin rate of a submunition unit |
October 19, 1993 |
| A device is provided for reducing the rate of rotation of a spinning submunition unit having a tail end provided with a deployable braking device, from a time after the submunition unit is ejected from a spin stabilized carrier projectile until the braking device is deployed. The dev |
| 5243915 |
Droppable mine |
September 14, 1993 |
| In known droppable mines it customarily becomes necessary, because of the consistency and slope of the ground, to right the mine into a position favorable for its action, with such a position being fixable, if possible, for the entire duration of deployment independently of extraneous |
| 5239927 |
Deceleration device for submunition |
August 31, 1993 |
| A deceleration device for a submunition unit includes a cartridge releasably attached to the submunition unit. A releasable package including at least one pocket is disposed in the cartridge and is connected to the cartridge by a packaging line. An auxiliary parachute and a rotation |
| 5237925 |
Deceleration element for a submunition unit |
August 24, 1993 |
| A deceleration element is provided for attachment to a tail end of a submunition unit for deployment when the submunition unit is ejected from a spin stabilized carrier projectile for reducing velocity and spin of the submunition unit. The deceleration element includes two approximately |
