Improvements relating to ammunition
AssigneeBAE SYSTEMS plc
InventorsThomas Lloyd Beswick, Ian John Pennell
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Abstract
This invention relates to a improvements relating to munitions, specifically to coating small arms ammunition with decoppering agents, as a replacement in lead free ammunition. There is a method of manufacturing a coated metallic projectile for a rifled barrel, comprising; providing a metallic projectile cup with a coating of a decoppering agent located thereon, to provide a coated metallic projectile cup; causing the coated metallic projectile cup to be drawn through a plurality of dies to form a drawn coated metallic projectile.
Claims21
A method of manufacturing a decoppering agent coated metallic projectile for a rifled barrel, the method comprising:
- coating a metallic projectile cup with a decoppering agent, to provide a coated metallic projectile cup;
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- causing the coated metallic projectile cup to be drawn through a plurality of dies to form a drawn coated metallic projectile.
A coated metallic projectile, suitable for a rifled barrel, said projectile comprising an outer drawn metallic jacket, said jacket encapsulating an inner core, wherein said outer drawn metallic jacket comprises a drawn coating of a decoppering agent located thereon.
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A tin coated round, suitable for a rifled barrel, comprising a cartridge case, a copper jacketed projectile, propellant, and ignitor cap, wherein at least one of the cartridge case and/or copper jacketed projectile, comprises a drawn coating of a decoppering agent thereon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.