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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7047887 | Hand grenade An airburst hand grenade constructed so as to jump 1–2 m above the ground before detonating. The hand grenade includes a detonator, a warhead, and support legs for raising the hand grenade from a horizontal position to an upright position once it has landed after ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6895864 | Subcalibre kinetic energy projectile The present invention relates to a segmented subcaliber projectile (1) subdivisible into a number of separate segments contiguous with each other at least initially to form an integral projectile of united segments or submunitions (5). The advantage wi... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6079334 | Grenade for a grenade thrower Shell for trench mortars and similar firing systems, which shell includes an effective portion, which can be fired from a barrel by a propellant charge, there being a pressure plate provided between the effective portion and the propellant charge, which p... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5341343 | Underwater explosive acoustic signature device An explosive actuated acoustic device emits sound to be used in torpedo countermeasures. Numbered devices are delivered over an extended area and sink through the water. The devices are actuated at different times as they sink, to provide sound masking ov... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5109774 | Penetrative projectiles Disclosed is a new type of penetrating projectile, the penetrating capacity of which is improved and more efficiently controlled, notably through a solution to the problems of obliquity. A projectile of this type has a front element forming the active par... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5070790 | Target marker to attract projectiles provided with a homing head A marker that can be used to increase the precision and efficiency of the guidance of homing heads towards a target. In order to mark targets on land, this marker has: an ovoid casing provided with a firing fuse, and a magnet and a coil for detecting flux... | 12/10/1991 |
| 4782757 | Fuse assembly for military projectile A compact, self-contained fuse assembly for producing a near surface burst of a military projectile such as a mortar shell.... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4372215 | Process and apparatus for transporting and dropping a plurality of charges contained in a single container and container equipped with such an apparatus The invention concerns a process and apparatus for transporting and dropping a plurality of charges contained in a single container. Within the shell of the container is arranged a plurality of modules, the bodies of which contain a charge, which may part... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4356770 | Overflying munitions device and system In a munitions system, a cylindrical canister is fired over a target. The canister carries a target sensing infrared device and, when a target is detected, a projectile is fired downward from the bottom of the overflying missile. A spinning motion is impa... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4318343 | Dual mode incendiary bomblet A dual mode incendiary bomblet which combines the effects of a jetting indiary and a slow burning incendiary. A gas producing ejection means within the housing of the bomblet ejects the incendiary package (burning portion) of the bomblet and assures that... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4296685 | Warhead with slave missiles disposed in a firing tube A plurality of warheads are disposed for ejection one behind the other, axially in a load-carrying missile with slave missiles disposed in firing tubes and parachutes connected to the warheads and causing their directional, braked descent in the target ar... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4178851 | Dual purpose munition An air delivered armor piercing and anti-personnel munition which includes pair of spin latched overlay hemispherical shells whose outer surface is fluted and which encase the fragmentation grenade munition. One of the shells is affixed to the munition by... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4178855 | Explosive actuated arming switch device A conductor plated on a frangible substrate. The unit is potted in a silicon base compound, placed in a header, and attached to a printed circuit board. This assembly is then encased in a housing using epoxy resin potting compound. The circuit is protecte... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4172407 | Submunition dispenser system A system for dispensing a large number of submunitions from a missile or aircraft in uniform selected pattern. Small, cylindrical submunitions are carried in ejection tubes in a generally cylindrical housing. Sets of tubes are arranged in parallel planar ... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4090446 | Controlled depth of burial penetrator A controlled depth of burial penetrator having a front and rear section. These sections are secured together with the leading edge or nose of the rear section being at approximately 45° with respect to a line drawn along the longitudinal axis of the pene... | 05/23/1978 |
| 3996857 | Jungle penetration munition A jungle penetration munition is produced which will pierce thick jungle iage and function approximately six feet above the jungle floor.... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3968748 | Target discriminating bomblet A target discriminating antipersonnel/antimaterial cluster weapon capable distinguishing between hard and soft targets. Upon striking a hard target such as armor or concrete, shear rivets are defeated causing a striker to plunge a firing pin into a stab ... | 07/13/1976 |
