Rheinmetall Gmbh

Rheinmetall Industrie Gmbh

Herbert Scholles

Wolfram Witt

Hendrik R Lips

Torsten Niemeyer

Raimund Schweiger

Wilfried Becker

Jurgen Bocker

Hans Orth

Jorg Peters

Dirk Kilfitt

Peter Tripptrap

A tandem warhead for combatting actively armored targets including two shaped or projectile forming charges arranged one behind the other, and an ignition or firing delay unit which causes the ignition of the first charge and then the second charge with a time delay. To avoid the target's active armor plate (which moves when hit by the first charge, from impeding or even destroying the following charge) the tandem warhead is provided with a device for determining the actual angle of the warhead relative to the target, i.e., the firing or attack angle, and an ignition time delay .DELTA.t associated with the respective firing angle .alpha.. To determine the firing angle .alpha., an angle determining device includes a plurality, preferably four, distance measuring devices with which respective distance coordinates between the tandem warhead and the target are measured and used for determining the momentary firing angle .alpha.. Thereafter, the delay time .DELTA.t is determined with the aid of a characteristic curve .DELTA.t=f (.alpha.) which is specific for the particular warhead.

Tandem warhead for combatting active targets

A target-protecting device for rendering harmless a projectile impacting on the device includes a reactive armor extending over the target and being composed of a plurality of individually electrically ignitable modules. Each module has an explosively acceleratable armor plate. An additional armor extends over and is positioned at a distance from, the reactive armor. A sensor arrangement is provided at the additional armor for emitting a signal identifying a location of projectile impact on the additional armor. An electronic monitoring device receives signals from the sensor arrangement for determining, from the signals, a position of the projectile upon penetration of the additional armor and for applying an ignition signal to a respective module to explosively accelerate the armor plate of such module toward the projectile.

Protective device having a reactive armor

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

An explosive charge including a body and an insert disposed within the body and having given regions which are uniformly distributed around the center of the insert which differ from their respective immediately adjacent regions for forming, upon explosive conversion of the charge, a rod-shaped projectile which has a tail end with shaped portions for providing aerodynamic stabilization of the trajectory of the projectile. The insert is fastened to the body in an essentially band-shaped contact zone disposed between the insert and the body so that there exists between the insert and the body a strong force transfer capability at the given regions and a weaker to negligible force transfer capability between the given regions.

Explosive charge having a projectile forming insert

An exploding missile has a casing and a parachute attached to the casing for making it move in a predetermined direction relative to the casing after launch. A charge in the casing has a projectile-forming front face, facing forward in the travel direction. An antenna is provided on the casing behind the front face and charge and is displaceable between a retracted position wholly behind the charge and an extended position projecting laterally therefrom and directed at least generally forwardly in the direction past the charge. An actuator is connected between the casing and the antenna for moving same from the retracted into the extended position after launch of the missile. A controller including a receiver connected to the antenna and a detonator in the charge detects the distance to a target in front of the missile and explodes the charge when a predetermined distance is detected or the target is otherwise sensed. The antenna is deployed after launch in a position capable of scanning forward of the obstacle to the secondary projectile, when that goes off.

Exploding missile

The invention relates to a mine or drop bomb having an effective load, a shaped charge, and an antenna which encompasses a target recognition device. In order to achieve on the one hand a rugged, arrangement which can withstand high acceleration forces, and, on the other hand, provide an optimum functioning of the antenna, the antenna is axially outwardly slidable, so that it can move from an inoperative, respectively transport, position into an operative position. For this purpose the antenna is mounted on a plurality of columns, which are equi-angularly disposed about the periphery of the arrangement and are slidable within guide means disposed in the housing of the arrangement. The antenna may be deployed by an inflatable gaseous container. In one embodiment the container may comprise an explosive gaseous mixture which ignites to break-off the antenna from the device before the mine explodes.

Airborne arrangement for producing a projectile

A warhead includes a housing in which an effective explosive charge and a projectile-forming layer is disposed. The effective explosive charge is connected and ignited by a target recognition device. In order to reduce the effect of the antenna as a hindrance and obstacle to the formation of a projectile by means of a projectile-forming layer forming part of the effective explosive charge, the antenna extends only to a limited extent into the central region of the end face of the effective charge and is in the form of an annular shape which only to a minor degree covers the projectile-forming layer so that only the peripheral surfaces of the projectile-forming layer are blocked by the antenna structure.

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Meerbusch, Germany

Herbert Scholles