Spinning mine with concentrated projectiles

Details Spinning mine with concentrated projectiles Spinning mine with concentrated projectiles

1997-06-16

1998-05-19

Tudor, Harold

Ammunition and explosives

Mines

Igniting means

102213, 102401, 102404, 102492, 102494, F42B 2300

Patent

active

057538514

ABSTRACT:
The spinning mine has all of its projectiles concentrated in one small ar It is launched from a spring-loaded threaded screw launcher and acquires angular momentum as it ascends into the air from the launcher to a pre-determined detonation altitude. As the mine spins, the detector assembly on board detects the presence and location of potential targets and sends appropriate indicative signals to a microprocessor, also on board. The microprocessor determines therefrom the location of the largest target or the largest cluster of targets in the environment and triggers the detonation of the mine such that the projectiles are jettisoned in a conical pattern toward the largest target or the largest cluster of targets for a more efficient destruction of the targets.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4160415 (1979-07-01), Cole
patent: 4232605 (1980-11-01), Lau
patent: 4627351 (1986-12-01), Thordarson et al.
patent: 4903602 (1990-02-01), Skagerlund
patent: 4979444 (1990-12-01), Schaffl
patent: 5003885 (1991-04-01), Rudolf et al.

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