Ammunition and explosives – Projectiles – Composite
Patent
1979-12-03
1982-03-09
Miller, Edward A.
Ammunition and explosives
Projectiles
Composite
149 196, 149 20, 149 22, 149 37, F42B 1316, C06B 4510
Patent
active
043183441
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to a combustible sabot and process for its preparan for a spinning tubular projectile. This combustible sabot is prepared in such a way and of such materials that it combusts spontaneously while exiting the gun barrel. The sabot is fabricated from an anhydride cured epoxy binder, boron, molybdenum trioxide, ammonium perchlorate and a metallic fuel selected from either aluminum or magnesium in the presence of a catalyst.
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Price Raymond M.
Ward John S.
Beers Robert F.
Marsh Luther A.
Miller Edward A.
Skeer W. Thom
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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