Messerschmitt-bolkow-blohm Gmbh

Dynamit Nobel Aktiengesellschaft

Gerd Kellner

Heinrich Brachert

Dieter Girke

Karl Rudolf

Johann Mayer

Hermann Klier

A warhead for use against fortified or armored targets has an axially extending common housing. A forward hollow charge is located in the housing adjacent the forward end. A follow-up projectile is located in the housing between the hollow charge and the rearward end. When the housing strikes a target an ignition system is activated first igniting the follow-up projectile and then igniting the hollow charge, so that the hollow charge opens a hole in the target and then is followed by the follow-up projectile aligned with the hole.

Warhead against fortified or armored targets, particularly for damaging

A single- or multiple-base powder charge for propellants is made up of at least one powder grain in the form of a shaped mass of powder having at least one internal cavity. The diameters of the internal cavities within the powder grains making up the charge are different and at least a portion thereof is smaller than the critical diameter that corresponds to the ignition pressure and that governs the penetration of the ignition flame into the internal cavities. With this arrangement at least a portion of the internal cavities is ignited with a retardation only by gas pressures that rise above the ignition pressure.

Single- or multiple-base powder charges for propellants and process for

A hollow charge ammunition particularly for dispersive weapons comprises a hollow charge having a forward end face with a recess and with a barb-forming liner in the recess overlying the end face. A folded member, such as a bellows-like structure is disposed in the recess and extends across the end face and it is unfoldable into an aerodynamically-formed stable structure extending outwardly forwardly of the recess. The device includes means such as a compressed gas for unfolding the member into the outwardly extending position at which it forms an aerodynamic surface.

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Gerd Kellner