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Armor plate penetrator

US4109580A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 10, 1977
Grant dateAug 29, 1978
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Expiry dateMar 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 al 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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