Projectile with cooled nose cone

US5340058A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rolf Holl · Düsseldorf, DE
• Rudolf Rombach · Rheydt, DE
• Karl-Heinz Roosmann · Ratingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 28, 1992
• Grant date: Aug 23, 1994
• Expiry date: Sep 28, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T152/10756
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A projectile, particularly a kinetic energy projectile, whose nose cone is cooled due to the provision of an ablation layer and a thermal insulation layer (8, 9) on the exterior of the metal hood (4) of the projectile nose cone, and due to a highly thermally conductive medium in the spaces (5, 6) between the hood (4) and the payload (3) particularly a penetrator, of the projectile.