Patent · US Expired

Armor plate penetrator

US4056060A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army · US

Inventor

Patrick J. Devine · Townsend, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 10, 1977
Grant date	Nov 1, 1977
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 10, 1997

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF42B12/06
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Armor-piercing rounds having improved penetrators therein providing high axial moments of inertia, and hence, high gyroscopic stability which is attributable to the variously configured non-circular cross-sections of the penetrators.

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