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US 4,112,847 AGranted
Warhead with a disintegrating jacket to house several projectiles
AssigneeMesserschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
InventorFranz Rudolf Thomanek
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AssigneeMesserschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
InventorFranz Rudolf Thomanek
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A warhead with a disintegrating jacket to house several projectiles, in picular splinter projectiles. The projectiles are each equipped with an ignition and backfiring system and fall to earth individually after disintegration of the warhead jacket. They are then fired upwards by means of the backfiring charge ignited by the ignition system, the charge explosive then being detonated. The ignition system of each projectile consists of a time-delay fuze and an impact fuze. The time-delay fuze is initiated when the projectile impacts with relatively soft ground and ignites the backfiring charge after adjusted times differing at least partly for the individual projectiles. The impact fuze, however, effects an immediate ignition of the backfiring charge when the projectile strikes relatively hard ground.
A warhead with an disintegrating jacket to house several projectiles, in particular splinter projectiles, each of them being equipped with an ignition and backfiring charge system, and each falling to earth individually after disintegration of the warhead jacket, and being fired upwards from the ground by means of the backfiring charge system ignited by the ignition system, said ignition system comprising a time-delay fuze, which is initiated when the projectile impacts with relatively soft ground and which ignites the backfiring charge after adjusted times differing at least partly for the individual projectiles, and an impact fuze, which effects an immediately ignition of the backfiring charge when the projectile strikes relatively hard ground.
A warhead comprising a housing adapted to fall apart, at least one splinter projectile in said housing having an impact bow end, a main explosive charge in said projectile, a backfire charge in said projectile, and an ignition device in said projectile including first means connected to said backfire charge to ignite said backfire charge when said impact bow is subjected to an initial impact at the ground of a first intensity, for example, due to a contact with hard ground, and a second means including a time delay connected to said backfire charge to cause ignition thereof after a predetermined time delay when said impact bow is subjected to an initial impact at the ground of a second intensity, for example due to contact with soft ground, and which is also connected to said main charge to ignite said main charge after a predetermined time delay.
A splinter projectile for use in a warhead with a plurality of other splinter projectiles comprising a housing having an impact bow end, a main explosive charge in said projectile, a backfire charge in said projectile, and an ignition device in said projectile including first means connected to said backfire charge to ignite said backfire charge when said impact bow is subjected to an initial impact at the ground of a first intensity, for example due to contact with hard ground, and second means including a time delay connected to said backfire charge to cause ignition thereof after a predetermined time delay and also connected to said main charge to ignite said main charge after a predetermined time delay.
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