Continuous-fiber reinforcement sabot

Details Continuous-fiber reinforcement sabot Continuous-fiber reinforcement sabot

1989-09-13

1990-09-25

Jordan, Chdarles T.

Ammunition and explosives

Projectiles

Composite

F42B 1406

Patent

active

049585711

ABSTRACT:
A sabot for an armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot penetrator is rovided formed of continuous filaments wherein the sabot is preferably bucket shaped and the filaments are sufficiently long to be wrapped from the obturator rearward around the projectile base, and forward to the obturator on the opposite side of the sabot. The filaments are formed of glass, pyrolytic graphite or other high tensile strength light weight material. The sabot preferably has grooves to mesh with similar grooves on a penetrator body and some of the filaments are angled into at least a portion of said grooves.

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