Flip-out mechanism for target trackers

Details Flip-out mechanism for target trackers Flip-out mechanism for target trackers

1992-09-18

1994-01-11

Brown, David H.

Ammunition and explosives

Drop bombs

With drop-retarding means

102393, 244 328, F42B 1014, F42B 1048

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052771156

ABSTRACT:
A method is provided for retarding the movement of the flip-out target tracker during a final part of a flip-out without the contents or journalling of the target tracker being damaged. The flip-out target tracker is on a sub-combat unit which is transported by a carrier body to a predetermined target area in order to be activated at the target area during flip-out of the target tracker. The target tracker scans the target area during the braked fall of the sub-combat unit and identifies and combats targets by means of an integrated warhead. The retardation is effected with a flexible brake band. The brake band is initially folded and attached to the target tracker at a first anchorage point in the proximity of a portion of the target tracker which, during flip-out, moves the longest distance. The brake band is stretched past an elastically deformable damper body secured in a main portion of the sub-combat unit. The damper body is caused to be at least partially deformed by the brake band during the final stage of the flip-out phase so that the brake band is stretched between the first anchorage point and a second anchorage point in the main portion of the sub-combat unit on another side of the damper body compared with a point on the damper body where the body and the brake band first meet.

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patent: 5063849 (1991-11-01), Axinger
patent: 5088414 (1992-02-01), Vesa

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