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Armor-piercing projectile

US4774889A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Rheinmetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

Peter Wallow · Düsseldorf, DE
Bernhard Bisping · Ratingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 21, 1987
Grant date	Oct 4, 1988
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 21, 2007

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S102/703
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An improved armor-piercing inertial penetrator projectile having a prepenetrator which has a substantially uniform flight diameter D, over substantially its entire length. A prepenetrator assembly is formed by a plurality of elements which are adapted to interact with the material of the corresponding target upon inpact so as to form an effective surface which has a diameter larger by a predetermined amount than the flight diameter D of the prepenetrator.

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