Rheinmetall W & M Gmbh

Rheinmetall Waffe Munition Gmbh

Horst Fritsch

Thomas Heitmann

Torsten Niemeyer

Christian Baumann

Frank Guischard

Rüdiger Borchert

A fin-stabilized projectile includes a projectile body having a rear portion defining a rearwardly open cavity and a stabilizing assembly which has an axially slidable fin support in the cavity. The fin support has a retracted position in which the fin support is withdrawn into the cavity and an outwardly shifted position in which the fin support projects from the projectile body. A plurality of fins are pivotally held in the fin support. Each fin has a folded state in which it is withdrawn in the fin support when the latter is in the retracted position and a deployed state in which it is unfolded and extends substantially externally of the fin support when the latter is in its outwardly shifted position. When the projectile has left the weapon barrel, the fin support is axially shifted and the fins move into the deployed state.

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Hermannsburg, Germany

Horst Fritsch