Method for mounting a radar reflector on an artillery shell

A method of mounting a radar reflector on an artillery shell, comprising the steps of:

• providing a one-piece turnably-symmetrical body having a lengthwise axis and capable of being fitted onto the artillery shell and constituted by a functional element constructed as a radar reflector of the triple-mirror type containing triple mirrors and a sleeve element formed rotationally-symmetrical about said lengthwise axis of said body;
• providing for said body at least one explosive device arranged at least at the neighborhood of an outer surface of said sleeve element near to one end of said sleeve element and remote from said functional element containing said triple mirrors;
• mounting said body on the artillery shell;
• detonating said explosive device in order to establish a form-locking connection of said sleeve element with the shell;
• and
• severing said sleeve element at the region of said one end of said sleeve element by virtue of the detonation of the explosive charge, in order to provide a substantially straight-lined closure of the sleeve element about the artillery shell in order to avoid undesirably altering ballistic characteristics of the artillery shell.