Cannon ammunition having combustible cartridge case

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1994-12-08

1996-08-13

Tudor, Harold J.

Ammunition and explosives

Cartridges

Combustilbe, destructible, or caseless

102470, 102700, F42B 518

Patent

active

055445870

ABSTRACT:
In cannon ammunition including a cartridge case containing a propellant charge, a case bottom to which the cartridge case is connected, a charge igniter, and a primmer element positioned in the case bottom, the improvement in which the cartridge case is combustible, is connected to the primer element, and includes a combustible material and a pyrotechnical mixture which is embedded within the combustible material and which is composed of at least one reducing agent and at least one oxidizing agent which form a pyrotechnical redox system; and the charge igniter consists of the cartridge case.

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