Armor-piercing projectile

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1986-06-18

1993-10-05

Tudor, Harold J.

Ammunition and explosives

Smoke generating

102473, 102493, 102517, 102522, F42B 1244, F42B 1204, F42B 1224

Patent

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H00012351

ABSTRACT:
Improved armor-piercing projectile of either caliber or saboted, subcaliber esign for effectively penetrating and destroying a fast moving, armored target. The improved projectile is generally comprised of a dome-shaped nose, a fragmentable hollow body of thimble-like configuration, and an integrated base-plug and fuse device. The hollow body is advantageously made up of a heavy metal, preferably either a tungsten alloy or depleted uranium, having a predetermined density of at least eleven grams per cubic centimeter (11.0 gm/cc). The interior of the hollow body is filled with a suitable high energy explosive material. The improved projectile, by reason of its hollow body, not only exhibits an improved ballistic coefficient as compared to previous projectile designs, but also maintains a substantially more uniform velocity throughout its effective range so as to strike a target in shorter time and with greater momentum. As the result of this shorter time and greater momentum, the projectile has greater effectiveness in striking and penetrating a fast moving target as well as significantly increasing the probability that the penetrated target will be destroyed because of the exploded and formed body fragments having greater impact due to their increased density.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2922366 (1960-01-01), Lyon
patent: 4237787 (1980-12-01), Wacula et al.
patent: 4353302 (1982-10-01), Strandli et al.

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