Spin-stabilized correctible-trajectory artillery shell

US7584922B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Diehl BGT Defence GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Bar · Achern, DE
• Karl Kautzsch · Schwanstetten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 5, 2007
• Grant date: Sep 8, 2009
• Expiry date: Dec 5, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42B10/26
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A spin-stabilized correctible-trajectory artillery shell has a generator in the rotation-decoupled engagement region between a canard guidance unit and its munition body. The generator can be switched over to avoid load fluctuations between an adjusting motor and a substitute load. In order to avoid an additional heat source in the interior of the guidance unit the substitute load is in the form of an electrical resistance on, at or in canard surfaces behind the afflux flow edges. The canard surfaces are preferably formed on anti-spin canards which are not adjustably mounted.