Projectile

A projectile consisting of a contact head having a box-shaped centrally disposed interior charge chamber containing a propellant charge, ports for firing leads and an outer casing therearound, said contact head having connected thereto a screen material canister (3) consisting of a drawn aluminum container having a base (29), a plate (71) located in the bottom of the canister for fastening the canister to the contact head, and aluminum container (3) being composed of wall (41) being closed at its top (42) by flanging with an aluminum cover (5), said canister containing a screen material, the outer casing of the contact head having contact rings arranged thereon which are connected via firing leads to a primer capsule, said charge chamber being gas-tight by virtue of a screw cover at its base and at the firing lead ports by virtue of a sealing agent, the screw cover having rupture discs thereon for the escape of the propellant gas upon ignition, the canister having therein a centrally disposed tube-like igniter-destruction unit with an igniter-destructor charge for igniting the screen material contained in the canister and fragmenting the canister wall, the contact head and canister being securely connected to one another by bolts and having disposed between the two, a delayed action fuse assembly which communicates with the igniter-destructor unit and the interior charge chamber, said screen material being composed of a single pressed body (123) which partially or completely fills the interior of the canister (3) and which is produced by pressing pellets (125) of a smoke charge based on red phosphorus and a granulate (127) of a smoke charge based on red phosphorus to form an enveloping porous structure of the granulate around the individual pellets.