Projectile having an apparatus for flight-path correction

US5836540A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall W & M GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rudolf Romer · Kaarst, DE
• Gerd Wollmann · Celle, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 24, 1995
• Grant date: Nov 17, 1998
• Expiry date: Mar 24, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F41G7/222
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A projectile having a longitudinal axis, a sensor disposed in the substantially pointed front end of the projectile for detecting a respective target, and electronics connected to the output of the sensor for igniting a correction charge to effect a correction of the flight path of the projectile by a predetermined angle (.delta..sub.0). In order to install the apparatus for flight-path correction into the respective projectile completely and in a space-saving manner, so that, unlike in known projectiles, corresponding evaluation and signal-transmission units in the respective weapon carrier can be omitted and complicated gyroscopic systems in the projectile can be omitted, the sensor determines the angle (.delta.) between the longitudinal axis of the projectile and the line (target line) connecting the projectile and the target, and when an angle (.delta..sub.0) is reached that is identical in size/magnitude to the deviation caused by the respective correction charge, the electronics ignite this charge.