High-explosive projectile

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1989-01-12

1991-04-23

Brown, David H.

Ammunition and explosives

Projectiles

Composite

102473, 102475, 102499, F42B 1220, F42B 1402

Patent

active

050091670

ABSTRACT:
A high-explosive projectile including a projectile body having a forward region and a tail region which transitions to a base, with an explosive charge disposed within the body and detonated by a suitable fuse, and a driving band disposed on the outer circumferential surface of the projectile body in the tail region, wherein the wall thickness of the tail region of the projectile body is substantially the same as the wall thickness of the forward region of the projectile body; the tail region of the projectile body has a cylindrical shape up to its transition to the base and forms a circumferential edge at the transition; and the rearward, gas pressure receiving side of the driving band is disposed adjacent the circumferential edge.

REFERENCES:
patent: 55761 (1866-06-01), Broadwell
patent: 847149 (1907-03-01), Barlow
patent: 1435773 (1922-11-01), Wilhelmi
patent: 1596180 (1926-08-01), Henderson
patent: 2197841 (1940-04-01), Slaughter
Rheinmetall Handbook on Weaponry, First English Ed., 1982, pp. 508-509.

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