Control propulsion unit, especially for exerting transverse forces on a missile
AssigneeMesserschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
InventorWalter Kranz
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Abstract
A control propulsion unit with a solid propellant (4) and a discharge nozzle, through which the propellant gases emerge into the open air, especially to exert transverse forces on a missile. To be able to precisely, quantitatively regulate the transverse forces, in accordance with the invention, it is proposed to extinguish the propellant in a controlled operation by reducing the clamping of the control propulsion unit, for example, by enlarging the discharge port for the propellant gases.
Claims6
A control propulsion unit having a solid propellant and a discharge nozzle, whereby propellant gases from ignition of said solid propellant emerge through said discharge nozzle into the open air, to exert forces on a missile, the discharge nozzle having a cross section which has a point of wider cross section and a point of narrowest cross section, the control propulsion unit comprising means, which can be controlled after the solid propellant is ignited, for reducing clamping of the control propulsion unit, said means for reducing clamping comprising means for reducing the ratio between a combustion surface of the propellant and the narrowest cross section of the discharge nozzle to such an extent that the propellant extinguishes automatically.
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