Diehl Gmbh & Co.

Gunther Lochner

Sonke Bleickert

Wolfgang Schwarz

Dieter Zwingel

Klaus Schluter

A propellent medium for a barreled weapon with electrically-supported liquid propulsion, especially for chemical-electrical hybrid drives with regenerative propellent medium injection. Organic compounds of a combination of carbon and hydrogen are contemplated in a ratio with one or more reactive groups which, with a good exothermic reaction of the propellent medium (hydrocarbon), will facilitate the dissociation of molecules or atoms of lower molecular mass. Hereby, a propellent medium component can be formed from charged hydrocarbon ring systems including reactive groups.

Propellent medium for hybrid weapon

A barreled weapon with chemical-electrical hybrid propulsion through the intermediary of regenerative injection of fluid propellants through at least one axially movable piston. The propellant components and/or the gases which are developed due to the reaction of the propellant components, are forcibly conducted past an electrode arrangement of a plasma burner in such a manner whereby the electrical energy of a light corona or arc discharge is coupled into the matter streaming therepast.

Barreled weapon with chemical-electrical hybrid propulsion through

A barreled weapon with regenerative propellant injection through the intermediary of at least one axially displaceable piston. A ring-shaped or annular cylindrical space is arranged coaxially about the weapon barrel, in effect, about the projectile or shell chamber, in which space there are arranged two mutually oppositely located, opposingly movable annular or ring pistons, whose piston shafts presently divide the space which is available behind the piston head into two selectively interconnectable loading chambers, each piston head possessing passageways which extend from the loading chambers and connect into the end surfaces of the piston heads, which are arranged offset relative to each other in such a manner so as to mutually seal off upon contacting of the oppositely located end surfaces of the piston heads.

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