Grenade arrangement for screening cloud

Details Grenade arrangement for screening cloud Grenade arrangement for screening cloud

1986-05-16

1988-02-23

Nelson, Peter A.

Ammunition and explosives

Smoke generating

102482, 102505, F42B 1344

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047262958

ABSTRACT:
A grenade arrangement for forming a visual and infrared screening cloud, having a frangible body, a hollow cylindrical solid compact cohesive mass of compacted generally mutually adhered fine metal flakes of a copper composition, particularly brass, and of submicron thickness and multimicron in lateral dimensions, a cylindrical mass of HE explosive within such hollow cylindrical mass for aerosoling such metal flakes into the atmosphere, and having HE explosive percussisvely activating detonator means, a launch propulsion charge and pyrotechnic delay means between the propulsion charge and the HE explosive detonator.

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