Projectile with controlled decomposition and integrated charge in the area of the effective mass

US6283032A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Buck Neue Technologien GmbH · DE

Inventor

• Norbert Wardecki · Heuweiler, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 15, 1999
• Grant date: Sep 4, 2001
• Expiry date: Jul 15, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42B12/48
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A smoke-generating projectile has a decomposable effective mass, the mass including a quick-burning deception component for generating spontaneous smoke, and a slow-burning concealment component for generating persistent smoke. The projectile includes an igniter, an ejection charge and/or ignition decomposition charge and at least one ignition delay device. The projectile is constructed so that the energy of decomposition of at least one of the effective mass components is constrained in a radial direction. The ejection charge and/or the ignition decomposition charge, as well as at least one ignition delay device, is installed in the effective mass.