Diehl Gmbh & Co.

Diehl Munitionssysteme Gmbh & Co. Kg

Diehl Stiftung & Co.

Hans Pauly

Hans Strauss

Adolf Weber

Manfred Schildknecht

Adolf Bankel

Gerald Rieger

Stephen Kerk

Roland Beisswenger

A fuse-less shell ( ) with a so-called pyrotechnic impact fuse achieves bore safety and safety in front of the bore by providing a spring-supported ball ( ) arranged in a central bore ( ) within a valve body ( ). The valve body ( ) separates an explosive charge ( ) at the shell side from an impact-sensitive firing charge ( ). The firing charge ( ) is disposed within a shell cap ( ) and surrounds a projection ( ), which acts as an anvil, of the valve body ( ).

Safety device for a pyrotechnic impact fuse of a ballistic high explosive shell

An explosive projectile (10) with a projectile casing (12), a ballistic hood (14), an explosive charge (26) located within of the projectile casing (12), a base detonator (28) and a fragment packing (32) which is located towards the head end of the projectile. The ballistic hood (14) is constructed so as to be readily destroyable or, respectively, constituted of a readily destroyable material. The projectile casing is closed at its forward end and provided with a recess (30) in which there is arranged the fragment packing (32). The fragment packing (32) at the forward end thereof bounds the explosive charge (26).

Explosive projectile

A self-destruct device for the detonators of spin-stabilized projectiles, wherein a generally crescent-shaped locking lever is pivotably supported on a circular disc-shaped plate which extends perpendicular to the longitudinal projectile axis. In its extended position, the locking lever engages below a spring-loaded percussion sleeve arranged so as to be axially displaceable on the firing pin which, in turn, is latched by means of the hook on a tripping lever which can be swung outwardly against the force of a spring engaging therewith during firing as a result of the centrifugal force exerted thereon caused by the projectile spin. The arm of the tripping lever which sustains the centrifugal force is subordinated in its extended position to a safety support which is fastened on the plate and, subsequent to the outward pivoting of the tripping lever, and also through the centrifugal force, is radially displaceable and thereby releases the tripping lever. As a result, upon a dropoff in the rotational speed of the projectile, the tripping lever unlatches the percussion sleeve through the locking lever, whereupon the percussion sleeve impacts against a shoulder or the like on the firing pin, and permits the latter to force itself into the detonator capsule of the detonator.

Self-destruct device for spin-stabilized projectile detonators

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Rothenbach, Germany

Hans Pauly