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US 4,903,917 AGranted
Projectile with rotatable stabilizing device
AssigneeRheinmetall GmbH
InventorsHelmut Peller, Hartmut Schilling, Hanjoerg Becker, Gerhard Glotz
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Abstract
The invention is concerned with a projectile with a stabilizing device that is depolyable beyond the caliber and that should at least comprise an object rotatable about its axis. The stabilizing device can be telescopically arranged and can have a cover that is shaped to conform to the surface of the projectile when the device is not deployed.
Claims10
A projectile having a predetermined caliber, comprising a stabilizing device including a plurality of cylinders each having a longitudinal axis;
- said cylinders being arranged equidistantly about the periphery of the projectile;
- the respective longitudinal axes of the cylinders lying in a common radial plane of the projectile;
- each cylinder having a different diameter, a different surface profile, a different length and a different exterior shape;
- said cylinders having a withdrawn position in which they are situated within the confines of the projectile caliber and a deployed position in which they project beyond the projectile caliber;
- said cylinders being movable from one of said positions into the other.
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