Impact projectile assembly
AssigneeRheinmetall GmbH
InventorsKlaus-Walter Klein, Jurgen Bocker, Gerhard Glotz, Klaus Gersbach
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Abstract
A subcaliber projectile assembly especially for attack against active armor has an enabling projectile disposed axially ahead of a main projectile and in line and in end-to-end relationship therewith in a common sabot. The fin structures of the two projectiles are designed to increase the resistance of the main projectile so that it is retarded relative to the enabling projectile and strikes the target only after the enabling projectile has depleted at least one level of defense along the line of attack.
Claims6
A subcaliber projectile assembly for firing from a barrel-type weapon to attack a multilayer armored target, comprising:
- an elongated sabot comprising a plurality of axially extending segments separable along axial planes, said segments defining a recess close to a leading air-catching end of the sabot;
- a relatively small inertial enabling projectile received in said end of said sabot and having a fin stabilizer received in said recess;
- a relatively large main inertial subsequently attacking projectile received in said sabot behind said enabling projectile and having a fin stabilizer disposed rearwardly of said sabot, said segments and the periphery of said main projectile being formed with mating formations enabling entrainment of said main projectile with said sabot until said segments of said sabot separate, said projectiles having aerodynamic configurations such that said enabling projectile reaches said target ahead of said main projectile;
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- at least one band surrounding said segments for releasably retaining same against said projectiles and holding said formations in mutual engagement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.