Warhead unit
AssigneeRheinmetall GmbH
InventorsWolfram Witt, Manfred Moll
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Abstract
A warhead unit carrying a pay load and being suspended from a parachute which brakes the descent of the warhead unit. The pay load includes a sensor for detecting a target and a projectile-forming charge which is fired from the pay load when activated by the sensor. The pay load is rotated by jet nozzles first about a longitudinal axis and then about a diagonal axis after the point of suspension has been shifted from the center of the top surface of the pay load to a corner of the top surface of the pay load.
Claims6
An improved warhead carrying a pay load and having a parachute which brakes the descent of the warhead onto a target region, including a sensor for detecting a target and a projectile forming explosive charge, the improvement comprising,
- that during the descent the pay load of the warhead is suspended from a parachute via a connecting member;
- means for rotating the pay load about a first longitudinal axis;
- and
- means for transferring the point at which said pay load is suspended via said connecting member from said parachute from a central region of said pay load to a corner region thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.