Ammunition, preferably for use in high-angle fire

US4955938A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rudolf Romer · Kaarst, DE
• Wilfried Becker · Düsseldorf, DE
• Bernhard Bisping · Ratingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 29, 1988
• Grant date: Sep 11, 1990
• Expiry date: Nov 29, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42B5/02
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Ammunition preferaqbly for use in high-angle fire to be fired from a cannon suitable for flat trajectory ammunition and with direct participation of the cannon barrel, the ammunition being made of one piece as an ammunition unit having the same outer dimensions as a comparable ammunition unit which is intended to be fired from the same cannon exclusively with an essentially flat trajectory, the ammunition unit including a propellant charge and a payload projectile having a rear portion occupying a region corresponding to that occupied by a portion of the propellant charge of the comparable unit.