Illumination munition
AssigneeBAE SYSTEMS plc
InventorDaniel Alexander Adams
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Abstract
The invention relates to an illumination munition, particularly an illumination payload ejection device housed within a common carrier payload delivery shell, with a frangible safety link. There is provided an illumination munition comprising a shearable tail unit, a main body which comprises a payload cavity for receiving an illumination payload apparatus, a fuze, an ogive element located between said main body and the fuze, and an explosive train operably connected to said fuze, wherein the illumination payload apparatus comprises an illumination composition, a drogue parachute and a main parachute, wherein the main parachute is tethered by a payload tether to the payload apparatus, such that after deployment of said main parachute said payload apparatus descends under the control of said main parachute.
Claims20
An illumination munition comprising a shearable tail unit, a main body which comprises a payload cavity for receiving an illumination payload apparatus, a fuze, an ogive element located between said main body and the fuze, and an explosive train operably connected to said fuze, wherein the illumination payload apparatus comprises an illumination composition, a drogue parachute and a main parachute, wherein the main parachute is tethered by a tether arrangement to the illumination payload apparatus, such that after deployment of said main parachute only the illumination payload apparatus descends under the control of said main parachute.
An illumination munition comprising:
- a shearable tail unit;
- a main body which comprises a payload cavity for receiving an illumination payload apparatus, wherein the illumination payload apparatus comprises an illumination composition, a drogue parachute and a main parachute, wherein the main parachute is tethered by a tether arrangement to the payload apparatus, such that after deployment of said main parachute said payload apparatus descends under the control of said main parachute;
- a fuze operatively coupled to an expulsion charge;
- a frangible ogive element located between said main body and the fuze;
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- a locking ring located between the main body and the frangible ogive element, to retain said illumination payload apparatus within the payload cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.