Segmented, discardable sabot having polygonal cross-section for sub-caliber projectile

US5025731A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Jurgen Meyer · Cologne, DE
• Achim Sippel · Ratingen, DE
• Monika Wildau · Korschenbroich, DE
• Heinz-Josef Kruse · Ratingen, DE
• Rainer Diel · Düsseldorf, DE
• Wilfried Becker · Düsseldorf, DE
• Gisbert Bartsch · Hamm, DE
• Klaus-Dieter Pahnke · Solingen, DE
• Jurgen Huege · Düsseldorf, DE
• Hans W. Luther · Kaarst, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 18, 1990
• Grant date: Jun 25, 1991
• Expiry date: Jun 18, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42B14/061
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A segmented, discardable sabot for a slender sub-caliber kinetic energy projectile. At least two sabot segments are provided having adjacent plane parallel segment separating faces and presenting at least one caliber-sized gas sealing pressure flange member and a non-caliber sized partial region along the longitudinal extent of the sabot. The overall cross section of the sabot, at least in the partial region, has an essentially polygonal cross-sectional shape, and a tangent placed at any point of the periphery of the sabot does not pass through the cross-sectional area of the sabot, thereby providing increased bending stiffness in the non-caliber-sized region of the sabot.