Projectile

Details Projectile Projectile

1988-11-22

1990-09-18

Jordan, Charles T.

Ammunition and explosives

Shells

With secondary shells

102480, 102703, F42B 1350

Patent

active

049570463

ABSTRACT:
A projectile has a nose portion and a body portion. A plurality of winged, fin-stabilized flechettes are releasably mounted in the body portion. Each flechette is mounted with its longitudinal axis at a pre-set pitch to a longitudinal axis of the projectile. In use, with the projectile moving on a projectile trajectory, each released flechette follows a respective trajectory parallel to and at a predetermined distance from the projectile trajectory. The predetermined distance for each flechette is determined by its pre-set pitch to the longitudinal axis of the projectile.

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patent: 4625646 (1986-12-01), Pinson
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