Rheinmetall Waffe Munition Gmbh

Buck Werke Gmbh & Co.

Buck Neue Technologien Gmbh

Karl Raupp

Norbert Wardecki

Peter Rayer

Werner Brand

Lothar-Georg Kopp

Hansj&ouml;rg Lang

Stefan Lauer

Wolfgang Kukla

André Klasen

A smoke munition or smoke grenade which can be fired from a launcher, for example a grenade launcher, and has at least one active charge for producing smoke as a protection for ships. To achieve the effect that the active charge of the smoke grenade can be delivered quickly and safely for the ship's crew and the active compound thereof can be converted completely into smoke even after hitting the water, the invention proposes providing the active charge with a floating aid, which can be deployed before the active charge hits the water and prevents the active charge from sinking and prevents the active compound that produces the smoke from becoming wet.

Smoke munition

The present invention relates to a cartridge for smoke generation for the protection of combat vehicles, wherein the shell has the form of an integral two-chamber double can ( ) including a partition wall shared by both chambers ( ), the wall thickness of the partition wall ( ) being greater than the wall thickness of the double can outer wall ( ), and the front end of the double can ( ) being closed gas-tight.

Ammunition for smoke generation

A rapid-release smoke hand grenade comprising a manually actuatable igniter head (A) and an active mass member (B), wherein the striker located on the igniter head to initiate the chain of pyrotechnical activity is loaded by means of a safety clip so as to be safe to handle, the smoke-forming means located in the active mass member is in the form of combustible disc-shaped or disc sector-shaped thin leaves (flares) coated with smoke-forming agent based on red phosphorus which practically fill the canister of the active mass member around a capsule for the ignition/bursting unit located therein, the heavy components of this rapid-release smoke hand grenade are held together by connecting elements which are stable when it bursts, and the essential components of the grenade preferably consist of aluminium. In a likewise preferred embodiment the ignition/bursting charge of the ignition/bursting unit consists of a classical detonating charge of aluminium and potassium perchlorate in order to minimise the combustion gases evolved when it reacts.

Rapid-release smoke hand grenade

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Neuenburg, Germany

Karl Raupp