Warhead unit

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1984-02-08

1985-09-03

Brown, David H.

Ammunition and explosives

Drop bombs

With drop-retarding means

102306, 102475, F42B 2502, F42B 1128

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045385190

ABSTRACT:
A warhead unit carrying a pay load and being suspended from a parachute which brakes the descent of the warhead unit. The pay load includes a sensor for detecting a target and a projectile-forming charge which is fired from the pay load when activated by the sensor. The pay load is rotated by jet nozzles first about a longitudinal axis and then about a diagonal axis after the point of suspension has been shifted from the center of the top surface of the pay load to a corner of the top surface of the pay load.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3875862 (1975-04-01), Fischer et al.
patent: 4050381 (1977-09-01), Heinemann
patent: 4296685 (1981-10-01), Romer et al.

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