Two-part armor-piercing projectile

Details Two-part armor-piercing projectile Two-part armor-piercing projectile

1984-07-09

1986-07-01

Tudor, Harold J.

Ammunition and explosives

Projectiles

Composite

102489, F42B 1306

Patent

active

045973334

ABSTRACT:
A composite armor-piercing subcaliber projectile has a front projectile part generally centered on an axis and having a rearwardly extending cylindrical sleeve of predetermined outer diameter and also generally centered on the axis and a rear projectile part centered on the axis and having a cylindrical outer surface substantially of the outer diameter and having a small-diameter forwardly extending projection fitting complementarily within the sleeve. An explosive charge between the front and rear parts can be detonated, as for example by a proximity fuse, to push the front part axially forward away from the rear part. The front part and sleeve can be unitary. In addition the front part can be tubular and centered on the axis. Furthermore the sleeve can be separate from the front and rear parts and have a front tube centered on the axis and at least partially containing the front part, a rear tube also centered on the axis and at least partially containing the rear part, and a central crosswise partition separating the tubes. It is even possible for the rear part to have a forward extension that projects through a tubular front part, serving during separation to guide the front part and serving thereafter to ballistically guide the projectile.

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patent: 2804823 (1957-09-01), Jablansky
patent: 3545383 (1970-12-01), Lucy
patent: 4112846 (1978-09-01), Gilbert et al.
patent: 4497253 (1985-02-01), Sabranski

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