Diehl Gmbh & Co.

Bernd Brieseck

Josef Nagler

Raimar Steuer

Peter Kreuzer

An airborne body with extendable fins or wing surfaces which are simultaneously extendable by the action of a drive element through the intermediary of a cam plate arrangement. The cam plate arrangement is formed by a cam plate which possesses two identically-shaped cam tracks for two fins, which tracks are mutually offset along the circumference of the cam plate, and whereby each cam track contacts against an actuating edge of one of the fins, and wherein the axis of rotation of the cam plate, about which it is rotatable through the action of the drive element, conincides with the longitudinal axis of the airborne body.

Airborne body with extendable fins

An airborne submunition member, having glide wing retainers which are displaced about the outside on the fuselage or body of the member, in which glide wings are extendable, and which are retracted into the glide wing retainers in the condition of transport. At least one of the glide wing retainers is supported on the body or fuselage of the members as to be rotatable about the longitudinal axis thereof, and wherein this glide wing retainer is turned towards one of the other glide wing retainers in the transport position.

Airborne submunition member

An airborne body with an over-caliber sized guidance mechanism, especially a projectile with control surfaces, whose surfaces are retracted against a projectile tail structure prior to launching or firing of the projectile from a weapon barrel or tube, and are generally radially extended subsequent to exiting from the barrel. A securing or latching pin arrangement is provided between the tail end structure of the projectile and each control surface for maintaining the latter is a retracted position, and is released upon acceleration of the projectile after firing to allow for the outward extension of the control surfaces into their operative positions. In this connection, there is especially contemplated a projectile which is fireable from a mortar tube or other kind of weapon barrel, and which possesses guidance control surfaces in order to enable influencing a flight trajectory (such as, for instance, final flight-phase guidance). The airborne body can also relate to a projectile equipped with a rocket propulsion arrangement, and in which the guidance mechanism can pertain to aerodynamic stabilizer fins.

Airborne body with over-caliber sized guidance mechanism

A projectile possessing extendable wings or fins which are adapted to be pivoted radially outwardly of the projectile. The wing or fin includes a flexible covering and a tensioning device; for example, a strut arrangement, and with the wing or fin being displaceable from a retracted position prior to launch of the projectile to an outwardly extended position in which the applicable covering portion is tensioned by the tensioning device so as to thereby provide a stable, predetermined aerodynamically defined wing or fin configuration.

Projectile having extendable wings

A pivot or bearing arrangement for the pivotable control surface of a guidable missile, especially a projectile which can be fired through the intermediary of the gas pressure generated by a propellant charge. The pivot bearing includes a control surface support guided by a radial ball bearing, including a circular shoulder which axially contacts against a sealing ring which lies on a shoulder of the supportive tail end structure of the projectile and which is constituted of a resiliently deformable or compressible material.

Pivot bearing arrangement for the control surface of a missile

A coupling arrangement between a linear control element and a pivoting element, especially for an aerodynamic control surface of a guidable missile. The coupling arrangement has the pivoting element equipped with a pivot arm which extends radially from its axis of rotation, wherein the pivot arm is oriented transverse to the sliding or thrust axis of the control element which, in turn, is oriented transverse to the axis of rotaion, and in which the pivot arm stands in engagement with the control element.

Coupling arrangement between a linear control element and a pivotable

A foldable wing or airfoil, which is especially but not exclusively adapted for a projectile, and which incorporates interengaging telescopable fin sections. A nose in the foldable wing, which is hingable in the region of one end through a pivot in a longitudinal groove, has a chamber opening facing away from its leading edge and which is located between the wing part surfaces for receiving the interlocking fin sections, which sections are profiled in U-shaped configuration. The chamber also receives a base or root spar which is hinged in the region of its leading end in the chamber, and wherein the front ends of the fin sections straddle the root spar and are each hinged along the root spar offset relative to each other.

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Henfenfeld, Germany

Bernd Brieseck