Weapon system

US6085629A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall W & M GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Thiesen · Willich, DE
• Jurgen Bocker · Oberhausen, DE
• Helmut Ortmann · Duisburg, DE
• Dieter Jungbluth · Selters (Westerwald), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 17, 1998
• Grant date: Jul 11, 2000
• Expiry date: Apr 17, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F41G3/08
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A weapon system includes a weapon having a chamber; a data input device; an aiming mechanism; and an ammunition unit that can be fired with the weapon. The ammunition unit includes a data memory for storing ammunition-specific data; and a microcontroller arranged on or in the ammunition unit and being connected, when the ammunition unit is inside the chamber of weapon, to the data input device, the aiming mechanism and the data memory. The microcontroller determines aiming signals necessary to control the aiming mechanism as a function of ammunition-specific, target-specific, and weapon-specific data transmitted to the microcontroller. The microcontroller transmits the aiming signals to the aiming mechanism.