Two-part armor-piercing projectile

US4597333A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Jurgen Bocker · Oberhausen, DE
• Peter Wallow · Düsseldorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 9, 1984
• Grant date: Jul 1, 1986
• Expiry date: Jul 9, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42B12/625
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A composite armor-piercing subcaliber projectile has a front projectile part generally centered on an axis and having a rearwardly extending cylindrical sleeve of predetermined outer diameter and also generally centered on the axis and a rear projectile part centered on the axis and having a cylindrical outer surface substantially of the outer diameter and having a small-diameter forwardly extending projection fitting complementarily within the sleeve. An explosive charge between the front and rear parts can be detonated, as for example by a proximity fuse, to push the front part axially forward away from the rear part. The front part and sleeve can be unitary. In addition the front part can be tubular and centered on the axis. Furthermore the sleeve can be separate from the front and rear parts and have a front tube centered on the axis and at least partially containing the front part, a rear tube also centered on the axis and at least partially containing the rear part, and a central crosswise partition separating the tubes. It is even possible for the rear part to have a forward extension that projects through a tubular front part, serving during separation to guide the front pa…