US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Edward M Schmidt

Michael S Hollis

William F Donovan

Fred J Brandon

Edward W Kennedy

George D Kahl

A fin stabilized kinetic energy tank training device comprising a project having a nose and having nose and end sections, and constructed of a low density material such as aluminum, and having a hollowed-out section to further reduce weight thereof, so as to minimizing penetration of an armor system on impact thereon.

Hollow training round

A high velocity aerodynamic projectile having a central body with a forward nd, a rearward end and a longitudinal axis, the forward end of the body has a pedestal coaxially extending outward from the body. The projectile has aft stabilizing fins or a flare rigidly affixed at its rearward end and a forward stablizing means pivotably attached to the pedestal of the central body. The forward stabilizing means consists of a self-aligning projectile nose having its rearward end separated from the forward end of the projectile's central body so as to allow the self-aligning projectile nose to pivot and align with the oncoming air stream.

Aerodynamically compliant projectile nose

A gaseous blast reducer employs a membrane which is effective to contain a ass of gas having properties different from air, in the vicinity of the source of the blast. The blast is forced to propagate through the mass of gas before propagating in the air. An acoustic mismatch caused by the difference in properties between the gas and air reduces or attenuates the blast.

Gaseous blast reducer

The compensator is attached to the muzzle of a gun to control the motion reof during the firing of a burst, and thus modifying the dispersion pattern in a desired manner. The device includes an asymmetric channel forming an extension of approximately one half of the gun's barrel, mounted in such a way that exhausting propellant gases will rotate the device through and arc following the firing of each round of a burst.

Burst fire compensator

A sabot stripper for stripping a sabot within its confines without rotatil forces or mechanical contact, having a gas restricting chamber of a uniform diameter greater than the bore diameter of a weapon, connected to the bore of the weapon by a transition chamber of increasing cross-sectional diameter from the bore to the gas restricting chamber.

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Forest Hill, MD, United States of America

Edward M Schmidt