Conical dart sub-munitions for cargo round

Details Conical dart sub-munitions for cargo round Conical dart sub-munitions for cargo round

2009-03-30

2011-12-13

Klein, Gabriel (Department: 3641)

Ammunition and explosives

Shells

With secondary shells

C102S438000, C102S703000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08074572

ABSTRACT:
A cargo round (e.g., 155 mm high explosive projectile) is provided for dispensing submunitions. The round includes a nose tip, a casing attached thereto forming a chamber, a tail and a payload in the chamber between the tip and tail. The payload includes a plurality of axi-symmetric darts mounted on a plurality of front and rear tandem plates. Each dart has fore and aft ends along a polar axis. Each dart is shaped as a cone at its fore end and includes a cavity at its aft end. Each plate has a plurality of orifices arranged in a regular pattern. Each orifice receives a corresponding dart to protrude from both obverse and reverse sides of the plate. Each fore end of its dart in the rear plate inserts into the cavity of a counterpart dart in the front plate, and each plate shears apart on release of the payload to disperse the darts. The plates preferably have a plurality of notches arranged in rows on the reverse side, together with a lip at an outer rim and bounded recess region within the lip on the obverse side, with the orifices are disposed in the region.

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The Gyroscopic Stability Condition: http://www.nennstiel-ruprechi.de/bullfly/gyrocond.htm.
The Dynamic stability Condition:http://www.nennstiel-ruprechi.de/bullfly/dynacond.htm.
The Tractability Condition: http://www.nennstiel-ruprecht.de/bullfly/unctf.htm.

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