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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6041713 | Practice projectile A practice projectile includes a projectile jacket having a frontal end, a rearward end including a base, a length and a longitudinal axis; a fuze igniting on impact and being disposed in the projectile jacket; a component defining an axial tubular cavity... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6035501 | Method of making a subcaliber kinetic energy projectile A method of making a subcaliber kinetic energy projectile includes the following consecutive steps: friction-welding a light-metal blank to a frontal end face of a tungsten heavy metal penetrator core, wherein the blank is overdimensioned relative to the ... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5965835 | Apparatus for monitoring the loaded or unloaded condition of a front loading weapon A front loading weapon includes a barrel for firing ammunition therefrom; a breechblock arranged at a rear terminal portion of the barrel; a firing pin carried by the breechblock; and an apparatus for monitoring load conditions of the barrel. The apparatu... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5929363 | Method and apparatus for destroying hidden land mines A method of destroying hidden land mines includes steps of providing a hole in the ground of a mine-contaminated area; placing into the hole a device which generates a shock wave by wire explosion; connecting the device to a switchable current source; and... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5481981 | Sabot for a subcaliber projectile A sabot for a subcaliber projectile, preferably an arrow projectile, having an essentially cylindrical guide gage (8) of a lightweight material and a tail-side drive element (14) detachably connected thereto for tail-side support of the projectile body (1... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5477786 | Subcaliber arrow projectile A subcaliber arrow projectile includes a projectile body which has a rearwardly widening, conical projectile tip having a forward point and a rearward base, whose caliber corresponds to the projectile caliber. The projectile body further has a rearwardly ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5476581 | Method of producing a weapon barrel having a wear-resistant inner coating A method of producing a weapon barrel (1) having a wear-resistant inner coating (10) applied by an electrolytic method. To enable the application of a relatively thick protective layer to the inner wall or surface of a large-caliber weapon barrel (1), in ... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5467713 | Ignition and safty device for a grenade projectile provided with a shaped charge insert An ignition and safety device for a grenade projectile provided with a shaped charge insert and having a bottom-side impact fuse that has a spin-dependent safety element and acceleration-dependent safety element (14, 17), and a self-destruct device. The s... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5463930 | Device for firing practice ammunition A weapon for firing practice ammunition includes a barrel having a frontal length portion terminating in a muzzle; an ammunition loading chamber at a barrel end opposite the muzzle; and a plurality of first gas outlet bores provided in the frontal length ... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5461962 | Gun silencer arrangement A silencer arrangement for large-caliber guns (3;33,34) including at least one silencer (5;54,55). In order for the system characteristics of the gun (3;33,34) not to be negatively influenced by the heavy weight of the silencer (5;54,55), the silencer is ... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5459914 | Method of sealing the front of a cylindrical sleeve body of a practice cartridge A method of closing the forward portion or region (u) of a cylindrical sleeve body (3) of a practice cartridge (1), wherein a predetermined number of inside and outside radial folds (8, 7, respectively) are created in the forward region (4) of the sleeve ... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5443009 | Charge arrangement for cartridge ammunition A charge arrangement for cartridge ammunition having a cartridge case, a bottom igniter secured in the case bottom and a primer that coaxially surrounds at least one part of the propellant composed of bulk powder and a tail-side part of a projectile that ... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5438930 | Mine The invention relates to a mine with at least one ejectable sub-munitions body disposed in a cup-shaped starting device and with a propulsion device for propelling the sub-munitions body into a selectable altitude range. For achieving that the propulsion ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5433399 | Device for guiding a missile The invention relates to a device for guiding a missile (1; 30) with a missile tip (2) and a cylindrical section (3) adjoining the tip of the missile; the device is provided with at least one control block (4; 31, 32) with exhaust openings (13-15) of corr... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5426568 | Launch-protected electronic assembly A launch-protected electronic assembly including a printed circuit board having several conductor paths. An electronic component is provided that is secured to the printed circuit board. The electronic component has several electrical connections each con... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5419272 | Explosive cutter for mine moorings An explosive cutter for severing a mooring of a moored mine includes a securing apparatus for attaching the explosive cutter to a mooring and for detaching the explosive cutter from an underwater vessel. The securing apparatus includes a mooring capturing... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5400714 | Large-caliber two part ammunition unit A method and an apparatus for producing a large-caliber ammunition unit including a combustible or partially combustible propelling charge casing and compacted or partially compacted propelling charge powder, to increase internal ballistic performance. It... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5396845 | Modular fuze A fuze or igniter provided with an adjustable electronic unit (24), a separate energy supply (40) as well as a mechanical safety device (26). In order for this fuze to be independent of the weapons system and not be bound to a particular type of payload, ... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5375526 | Fuze mechanism for projectiles, rockets, bomblets and mines having a pyrotechnic self-destruct mechanism A fuze mechanism (1) for projectiles, rockets, bomblets and mines which is of the type including a fuze housing (2) and a self-destruct device containing a pyrotechnic delay arrangement (10) and a firing pin (11), with the fuze housing (2) having a side o... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5375517 | Method and apparatus for screen printing An apparatus for screen printing on a thin, curved steel hybrid board includes a receiving frame having a nest for seating the board therein; and a magnet accommodated in the receiving frame for maintaining the board in a flattened state during the screen... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5337504 | Gun tube The present invention relates to a gun tube having a spin curve with a variable spin angle as well as a rifling force R(x) over the path of the projectile (x) through the gun tube when a projectile is fired, as well as a predetermined caliber d, projectil... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5333551 | Drive member for a large-caliber multi-purpose cartridge and use of such a drive member for the product of different types of cartridges A drive member for the projectile head of a large caliber, multi-purpose cartridge or a multi-purpose training cartridge, wherein a threaded connection is provided for the form-locking connection between the drive member and the projectile head. In order ... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5323701 | Screen printing apparatus An apparatus for screen printing a conductor pattern on a circuit board blank includes a receiving frame having a nest for seating the circuit board blank. The nest includes a porous stone having a surface for supporting the circuit board blank. Air is dr... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5317543 | Method and sensor for determining the distance of sound generating targets A method and to a sensor for determining the distance of sound generating targets, preferably wheeled or track-laying vehicles, from acoustic signals which are subjected to a Fourier transformation. In order to determine the target distance easily and rel... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5295428 | Method of disassembling large-caliber combat cartridges and use of the cartridge components obtained by the method for the production of new cartridges The present invention relates to a method of disassembling large-caliber combat cartridges, particularly armor-piercing cartridges, including a combustible casing jacket that conically widens in the direction of the projectile, a casing bottom and a casin... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5289777 | Subcaliber kinetic energy projectile A subcaliber kinetic energy projectile (1) including a penetrator (2) and a segmented sabot (3) which is provided with a front support (4) and with a second support (5) that is disposed at an axial distance behind the first support, with the second suppor... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5289755 | Ram head A ram head for possibly two-part ammunition which is provided at its bottom with a central rotationally symmetrical form-locking zone. In order to be able to unload the ammunition, a housing (1) is provided with a ring (11) that is arranged to be axially ... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5275355 | Antitank weapon for combating a tank from the top A projectile for a surface-to-surface weapon to combat a target from the top. The projectile includes a warhead; a propulsion system for accelerating the projectile directly after the projectile is placed in flight; a stabilizing guide assembly; a sensor ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5272983 | Casing bottom for a propelling charge A casing bottom for a propelling charge including a circular ring shaped (annular) base plate (1) which accommodates a centrally arranged primer sleeve (7) in a form-locking manner. In order to be able to unload ammunition, particularly two-part ammunitio... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5262921 | Directly cooled circuit board for an electronic power circuit In order to improve the cooling of one sided circuit boards for electronic power circuits in SMD configuration, the surface (14) of the circuit board (10) which is not provided with circuit components is part of the interior wall of a housing (26) through... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5259317 | Hollow charge with detonation wave guide A warhead having hollow charge, such as a bomblet as well as a large caliber armor-piercing projectile has an improved detonation wave guide arrangement which preferably produces a high pyrophoric effect at target impact. The detonation wave guide itself ... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5259290 | Ammunition container An ammunition container (1) for large caliber ammunition (2) includes two shells (5, 6) that are arranged parallel to the ammunition, with one shell (5) being fixed and the other shell (6) being movable. A rotatable control lever (7, 7') is mounted at lea... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5253588 | Device for reducing the spin rate of a submunition unit A device is provided for reducing the rate of rotation of a spinning submunition unit having a tail end provided with a deployable braking device, from a time after the submunition unit is ejected from a spin stabilized carrier projectile until the brakin... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5243915 | Droppable mine In known droppable mines it customarily becomes necessary, because of the consistency and slope of the ground, to right the mine into a position favorable for its action, with such a position being fixable, if possible, for the entire duration of deployme... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5192368 | Screen printing machine provided with a compressed air cleaner A screen printing machine for imprinting hybrid circuit boards with thick-film pastes of the type including a horizontally movable printing table (12) and a vertically raisable frame (16), wherein a compressed air cleaner (2) is attached to the frontal or... | 03/09/1993 |
