Mauser-werke Oberndorf Gmbh

Futurtec Ag C/o Beeler + Beeler Treuhand Ag

Other

Rheinmetall Waffe Munition Gmbh

Adolf Würth Gmbh & Co. Kg

Geke Schutztechnik Gmbh

Furturtec Ag C/o Beeler + Beeler Treuhand Ag

Futurec Ag C/o Beeler + Beeler Treuhand Ag

Krauss-maffei Wegmann Gmbh & Co. Kg

Geke Technologie Gmbh

Geke Equitec Gmbh

Gerd Kellner

Roland Bertiller

Helmut Reudelsterz

Gerhard Sailer

Christian Nentwig

Axel Ziegler

Bernhard Peter

Günter Weihrauch

Hans-Juergen Roemer

Wolfgang Fucke

Guenter Weihrauch

Hans-Jürgen Römer

Nicoline Kellner

A reactive protection arrangement for protecting stationary or mobile objects against threats posed by hollow charges, projectile-forming charges or kinetic energy penetrators is secured to the side of the object to be protected that faces the threat in a fixed or movable manner, and includes at least one protective area arranged at an inclination angle to the threat direction. This protective area comprises a front cover that faces the threat, and a rear cover that faces away from the threat and is spaced apart from the front cover and, is configured as a bulging arrangement. At least one fixed or movable reactive middle layer or reactive zone is present between both covers which includes at least two reactive partial areas each having at least one explosive field, wherein the reactive partial areas are plugged on all sides by means of the delimiting covers as well as lateral separating layers.

Reactive protection arrangement

A highly effective and also inert active penetrator, an active projectile, an active airborne body or an active multipurpose projectile with a constructively adjustable or settable relationship between penetrating power and lateral effect. The end ballistic total effect which is obtained from the penetrating depth and covering the surface or stressing of the surface is initiated in an active case by means of a releasable arrangement or installation which is independent of the position of the active body.

Projectiles possessing high penetration and lateral effect with integrated disintegration arrangement

Projectiles or war-heads with an inner arrangement for the formation of bulging zones ( ) are proposed, comprised of an enclosed bulging medium ( ) which is terminal-ballistically substantially ineffective and is radially enclosed by a penetration material ( ) which is terminal-ballistically effective, with the bulging medium ( ) having a lower density as compared with the enclosing penetration material ( ). This leads to the effect that on impact or on penetrating a target plate ( ) the bulging medium ( ) remains behind relative to the encompassing terminal-ballistic effective body ( ) and is laterally increasingly bulged by the bulging material ( ) which continues to flow in from behind. As a result of the high pressures, a conical (crowned) pressure and bulging zone ( ) is formed dynamically, which zone radially widens or fragments the passing ambient effective material ( ).

Projectile or war-head

Projectiles or war-heads with an inner arrangement for the formation of bulging zones ( ) are proposed, comprised of an enclosed bulging medium ( ) which is terminal-effective ballistically substantially ineffective and is radially enclosed by a penetration material ( ) which is terminal-ballistically effective, with the bulging medium ( ) having a lower density as compared with the enclosing penetration material ( ). This leads to the effect that on impact or on penetrating a target plate ( ) the bulging medium ( ) remains behind relative to the encompassing terminal-ballistic effective body ( ) and is laterally increasingly bulged by the bulging material ( ) which continues to flow in from behind. As a result of the high pressures, a conical (crowned) pressure and bulging zone ( ) is formed dynamically, which zone radially widens or fragments the passing ambient effective material ( ).

An arrangement for protection against shaped charges, primarily bomblets which approach or which position themselves on an object such as armored target object, through the provision of disruptive bodies on the target object.

Arrangement for protection against shaped changes

A stud driver for driving fastener studs in place with the aid of a propelling piston moved by a propellant contains a return spring concentrically surrounding a piston rod of the propelling piston. The return spring has roughly the shape of a relatively thin-walled cylindrical sleeve of elastomeric material reinforced at regular intervals by metallic ring disks. These metallic ring disks prevent any uncontrolled deformation of the elastomeric sleeve in high-speed movement of the propelling piston.

Stud driver and spring therefor

An insert for a weapon barrel for facilitating the firing of a small caliber ammunition comprises a tubular member having a bore defining a distinct caliber with one end having an exterior surface ending in a raised shoulder forming an abutment for a compensating bushing positioned on the exterior surface and abutting the shoulder. A sleeve is positioned on the exterior surface alongside and abutting against the bushing. This end of the insert carries a first locking mechanism for locking the sleeve radially in the barrel. This includes a tapered spreader sleeve which engages with a tapered exterior surface of the sleeve positioned on the insert adjacent the compensating bushing. The spreader sleeve is urged into bearing engagement with the tapered surface of the other sleeve by means of a knot threaded over the insert and advanced toward the spreader sleeve. A safety key is insertable through an opening in the sleeve and it engages in a longitudinal slot formed on the insert. The opposite end of the insert includes a collet which bears against a raised annular portion of the insert which forms a stop. The collet carries a plurality of damping elements over which a thrust collar having a taper is positioned and the clamping elements are urged by one or more clamping screws to engage this end tightly against the conical portion of the cartridge chamber of the weapon barrel. A spreader sleeve at this end is advantageously threaded over a collar formation of the collet at its outer end, and the collet itself is advantageously threadably engaged on the insert.

Insert for reducing the caliber of a weapon

An arrangement for gastightly sealing the gap between the cartridge chamber and the bottom of an insert which is received in a gun barrel 1 to be able to fire cartridges of a smaller caliber. The gastightness is obtained substantially by providing that the neck of the subcaliber cartridge case inserted in the cartridge chamber protrudes into the bottom of the barrel insert and that the outer surface of the neck snugly fits the cylindrical surface of the insert.

Gastight seal of a gun barrel

A two-barrel revolver-type firearm comprising two fixed barrels to be fired alternately, which are equipped with igniting systems and drives of their own, independent of each other. A drum with an odd number of chambers alternately aligns a chamber with each barrel for alternate firing of cartridges through the two barrels.

Two-barrel revolver-type firearm

The improved gun barrel insert is provided in tank-borne guns, field howitzers and the like. It makes possible the use of small caliber and thus less expensive ammunition having ballistic properties of the substituted larger caliber ammunition, while maintaining the opening, closing and igniting mechanisms provided for the larger caliber firing as well as the geometry and weight of the larger caliber cartridges. True combat conditions with a correct observation of shooting regulations can thereby be simulated to a very large extent and a high accuracy in hitting targets from shooting stands or moving bases can be obtained. The provided insert accommodates both a smaller-caliber cartridge and the igniting mechanism therefor. The insert is designed as a slightly tapering rotational symmetrical adapter conformable to the cartridge chamber of the larger caliber weapon. The conical front end of the adapter bears against the mating rear portion of the barrel insert proper. Axially the adapter is held in position by the breech block without any modification.

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Schramberg, Germany

Gerd Kellner