Liquid-propellant system

US4532851A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Karlheinz Reinelt · Hermannsburg, DE
• Wolfram Witt · Goldkronach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 13, 1979
• Grant date: Aug 6, 1985
• Expiry date: Apr 13, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F41A1/04
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A nonhypergolic propellant for a barrel-type weapon is mixed with about 20% by volume of a propellant granulate which can be in the form of spheroidal powder, preferably a dibasic powder propellant, or in the form of micro-encapsulated liquid propellant which can be of the same composition as the liquid propellant in which the granulate is entrained or can be a different liquid propellant. The propellant granulate improves the combustion characteristics of the propellant and hence the reproducibility of the firing operations.