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US 9,513,094 B2Granted
Ammunition with projectile containing no explosive material in order to create a multi-spectral target signature
AssigneeRheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
InventorsLars Dierks, Christopher Zimmermann
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Abstract
An ammunition is proposed with an explosive-free missile that releases, upon dismantling at the target a fuel or fuel mixture as flammable air-fuel mixture, being caused to spontaneously react by at least one, by impact dismantling triggered, explosive-free, spark-generating ignition mechanism. The thus produced optical and thermal target signature can be detected with the naked eye, as well as with rifle scopes or other optical target detection systems, as well as with night-vision and thermal imaging devices.
Claims12
An ammunition with an explosive-free missile comprising:
- (a) a missile comprising
- (i) at least one missile body;
- (ii) a missile cover;
- (iii) a support structure;
- (b) an explosive-free, spark-producing ignition mechanism, wherein the support structure holds the ignition mechanism within the missile body;
- and
- (c) an active mass, wherein the active mass is located in a hollow space that is defined within the missile,
- wherein the active mass comprises a fuel or a fuel mixture that is releasable at impact dismantling at a target as a flammable air-fuel mixture,
- wherein the flammable air-fuel mixture is disposed at impact dismantling to be spontaneously brought to reaction by the explosive-free, spark-producing ignition mechanism,
- wherein the active mass comprises a fuel in powder, granular or compressed form, or a fuel mixture in powder, granular or compressed form, and
- wherein the ignition mechanism is armed by one of the group consisting of a firing energy of the missile, a kinetic energy of the missile, and the firing energy and the kinetic energy of the missile.
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