Submunition deployable through an artillery projectile

US5111748A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Diehl GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Gunther Thurner · Straßkirchen, DE
• Helmut Hammer · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 29, 1990
• Grant date: May 12, 1992
• Expiry date: Oct 29, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42B30/003
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Submunition which is deployable through the intermediary of an artillery projectile, and in which the submunition includes a releasing device for a braking parachute which is stowed in the tail end region of the submunition. The releasing device is activatable through the intermediary of a retarding element which, in turn, is releasable in dependence upon the exit of the submunition from the casing of the carrier projectile.