Rheinmetall Gmbh

Hans Orth

Hendrik R Lips

Herbert P Weisshaupt

Rudolf Romer

Jurgen Bocker

Benjamin Furch

Wilfried Scheideler

Udo Sabranski

Herbert Scholles

Peter Tripptrap

Torsten Niemeyer

Jurgen Funk

Siegfried Quick

Raimund Schweiger

Michael Gunther

The invention relates to an insert for a warhead for producing a projectile by means of an explosive deformation of the insert. In order to achieve increased end-ballistic performances of the projectile formed by the explosive deformation of the insert, such insert is tapered at its peripheral region and has a flattened central region on the convex side thereof.

Insert for a warhead

A fragmentation projectile having at least two adjacent casings including an inner casing having an inner surface and an outer surface, and at least one outer casing substantially surrounding the outer surface of the inner casing. An explosive charge is disposed within the inner casing, and an incendiary mass is disposed on the inner surface of the inner casing and facing the explosive. Structured zones are defined on the inner casing and include regions of lesser wall thickness than the portions of the inner casing surrounding the regions to cause a shock wave generated when the explosive charge is detonated to be transferred locally into the at least one outer casing to produce fragments of a predetermined size and shape.

Fragmentation projectile

Warhead

A warhead including a body surrounding an explosive and a projectile forming liner connected to the end of the body. In order to prevent undefined chipping effects along the edge of the liner during detonative reshaping of the liner, the liner and at least the part of the body immediately adjacent the liner form an integral unit made of the same material.

Warhead with casing and liner forming an integral unit

A grenade projectile has a projectile housing having a fragmentation length portion; an explosive charge accommodated in the projectile housing and being surrounded by the fragmentation length portion; a forwardly acting shaped charge liner bounding the explosive charge at a front end thereof, as viewed in the flight direction of the projectile; and a percussion fuse assembly accommodated in the projectile housing behind the explosive charge as viewed in the flight direction. The percussion fuse assembly includes a percussion member, a flight acceleration-responsive first safety arrangement and a centrifugal force-responsive second safety arrangement for arming the percussion member when the projectile reaches a predetermined acceleration and a predetermined spin.

Grenade-type projectile

A warhead for enclosing an explosive charge includes a casing for surrounding the charge. The casing has an end presenting a frontal face. A liner having a circumferential area for attachment to the end of the casing and a coefficient of thermal expansion .alpha..sub.R is fastened to the casing by way of an intermediate ring connected to the circumferential area of the liner. The intermediate ring has a portion which is brought around the frontal face of the casing and which has a pressure face which presses against the exterior of the casing. The liner has a coefficient of thermal expansion .alpha..sub.E which is at least as great as the coefficient of thermal expansion .alpha..sub.R of the intermediate ring.

Warhead with device for fastening the liner of a charge to the casing

A forwardly concave insert for a hollow charge of an armor-piercing missile or projectile has an inner peripheral wall with linear generatrices and an outer peripheral wall with at least partly curved generatrices diverging from the inner wall surface to an annular zone of maximum wall thickness at more than half the distance from the point of the cone to its base, the outer generatrices having centers of curvature lying beyond the cone axis on radii which are perpendicular to the inner wall surface at that annular zone. The arcuately curved sections of these outer generatrices merge tangentially into substantially straight-line sections converging at the cone axis into the aforementioned point.

Hollow-charge insert for armor-piercing projectile

A load-carrying missile adapted for firing from barrel weapons and having a plurality of explosive charges disposed thereon with a plurality of projectile forming coverings distributed over the periphery of the missile and directed substantially perpendicular to the axis of the missile. The missile is provided with a parachute which is connected to the casing of the missile and which causes a directional braked descent of the missile in the target area.

Missile having explosive charges with projectile forming coverings

A disc-shaped warhead adapted for being fired from a barrel weapon, and particularly for being stacked with a plurality of similar warheads in a load-carrying missile for ejection one after the other. The warhead has a plurality of slave missiles disposed in radially directed firing tubes, and a parachute connected to the warhead and causing a directional, braked descent in the target area. Each of the slave missiles has a proximity fuse to detonate it individually after reaching a predetermined distance from the ground or other target.

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Dusseldorf, Germany

Hans Orth