Firing device for close-in defense ammunition
AssigneeNexter Systems
InventorJean-Francois Cazalieres
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Abstract
A firing device for close-in defense ammunition, ammunition incorporating a rigid casing enclosing at least one projectile, casing integral with a base that can be joined by linking means to a firing device base incorporating means to prime the ammunition, device wherein it incorporates a tube capping the ammunition after this ammunition has been fixed onto the firing base, such tube that is itself made integral with the firing base by attachment means, such tube further carrying an articulated bipod enabling the orientation in elevation of the device.
Claims16
A firing device for close-in defense ammunition that incorporates a rigid casing enclosing at least one projectile, the casing having a base that is joined to the firing device, the firing device comprising:
- an electrical power generator;
- a firing base connected to the base of the casing of the close-in defense ammunition;
- a tube having an end, the tube being attached to the firing base with a lever;
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- a bipod carried by the tube and arranged at the end of the tube, enabling an orientation in elevation of the firing device,
- wherein the tube caps the close-in defense ammunition after the close-in defense ammunition has been fixed onto the firing base,
- the firing base having an axis and a spring,
- the lever being mounted on an axis of the firing base and configured to tilt about the axis of the firing base, and
- the spring configured to hold the lever in a tilted position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.