Caseless ammunition for automatic weapons

US4572076A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Diehl GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Anton Politzer · Achern, DE
• Werner Heberlein · Nuremberg, DE
• Helmut Konicke

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 13, 1984
• Grant date: Feb 25, 1986
• Expiry date: Mar 13, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S102/70
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Caseless ammunition for cannons, in particular automatic weapons with a selective single or bipartitioned cartridge chamber into which a projectile and a propellent charge are separately introduceable. The ammunition consists of a projectile member with a directly attached, fixedly interconnected propellent charge, and which is completed through a base detonator fuse which is separate from the projectile. The separation between the base detonator fuse and the projectile is undertaken in such a manner that, for the longest employed shell there are always formed two approximately equally lengthy parts.