Submunition member with laterally outwardly-movable target detection device

US4848235A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Diehl GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Gunter Postler · Westerburg, DE
• Lothar Anacker · Nuremberg, DE
• Wilhelm Furst · Meyenburg, DE
• Anton Brunner · Starnberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 2, 1988
• Grant date: Jul 18, 1989
• Expiry date: Aug 2, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42C15/184
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A rotating submunition member which, subsequent to ejection from a carrier, incorporates a target detection device projecting outwardly beyond the wall contour of the member in an operating position; and a fuze arrangement for a detonator which is disposed interiorly of the wall of the submunition. The submunition member is equipped with a securing or safe-and-arm device in which the detonator is located on a movable mounting or holder, which is displaceable through the intermediary of a spring-elastic power element from the SAFE position of the detonator into its ARMED position, when a flyweight has tensioned the power element and the target detection device is displaced into its operative position projecting beyond the wall contour of the submunition member.