Spreadable telescopic head for appliances, projectiles, bombs or missiles
AssigneeSociete d'Etudes, DeRealisations et d'Applications Techniques (S.E.R.A.T.)
InventorsMichel Precoul, Jean-Claude Francois
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Abstract
A telescopic warhead for a submunition ejectable from a carrier projectile the explosive charge of which is made up of submunitions scatterable and housed in the front portion of the carrier projectile, characterized in that the telescopic head includes a telescopic sliding skirt formed of a plurality of cylindrical elements, which are preferably metallic. The telescopic warhead, during storage, does not reduce the inside space requirement of the carrier projectile which leaves the inner volume available in front of the explosive charge whether the telescopic warhead is in a storage configuration or in an expanded configuration.
Claims8
A telescopic warhead stand-off for submunitions ejectable from a carrier projectile, the explosive charge of which comprises scatterable submunitions disposed in a front portion of the carrier projectile, each submunition comprising a charge case, a hollow charge liner disposed within the charge case, an explosive disposed between the charge liner and the charge case, a fuze disposed at a rear portion of the charge case, a flexible stabilizer disposed rearwardly of the fuze and a skirt disposed forwardly of the hollow charge liner, wherein the improvement comprises, a telescopic skirt disposed in a bore of the skirt of the charge case, said telescopic skirt comprising cylindrical crowns each of which is slidable outwardly of the bore of the skirt of the charge case to an expanded condition under the effect of inertial forces exerted on said crowns during ejection of the submunition from the carrier projectile and during opening of the stabilizer of the submunition.
A telescopic warhead stand-off for submunitions which are scatterable by ejection from a carrier projectile, the explosive charge of which comprises a plurality of said scatterable submunitions disposed in a front portion of said carrier projectile, each of said submunitions copmrising a charge case, a hollow charge liner disposed within said charge case, an explosive disposed between said charge liner and said charge case, a fuze disposed at a rear portion of said charge case, a flexible stabilizer disposed rearwardly of said fuze and a skirt having an axially extending bore disposed forwardly of said hollow charge liner, and a plurality of telescoping coaxial cylindrical crowns slidably disposed in said bore of said skirt, each of said crowns being slidable in an axial direction outwardly of said bore in said skirt to an expanded condition under the effect of inertial forces exerted on said crowns during ejection of said submunition from said carrier projectile and during opening of said stabilizer of said submunition.
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