Diehl Gmbh & Co.

Battelle-institut E.v.

Diehl Munitionssysteme Gmbh & Co. Kg

Diehl Stiftung & Co.

Manfred Schildknecht

Karl Rudolf

Hans Strauss

Max Rentzsch

Werner Rudenauer

Klaus Lindstadt

Rainer Himmert

Heinz Hofmann

Dimitri Kovalev

Joachim Diener

Hans Pauly

Johannes Bol

Egon Gross

Gerald Rieger

Nicolai K&uuml;nzer

Victor Timosnenko

Gunter Honcia

A penetrator, including a penetrator housing in which there is arranged an explosive charge and an ignition system for the triggering of the explosive charge. The penetrator housing consists of a composite of a steel outer housing and a heavy-metal inner component, whereby the heavy-metal inner component, at predetermined external dimensions of the penetrator, is provided for the reduction of the mass of the steel outer housing and thus leads to an increase in the volume of the explosive charge and correspondingly to an increase in the mass of the explosive charge.

Penetrator

In a nanostructured reactive substance and a process for producing the same, intermixing of silicon and oxidizing agent on a nanometer size scale permits virtually direct contact between the fuel and the oxidizing agent, only separated by a barrier layer. After the barrier layer is broken open, fuel and oxidizing agent are spatially directly together and can react, liberating energy. The reactive substance has a high reaction rate in comparison with conventional reactive materials.

Nanostructured reactive substance and process for producing the same

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

A fuse-less ballistic explosive projectile (1) with a great fragmentation effect has a secondary explosive (50) with a special structure (75), the secondary explosive detonating upon impact. The secondary explosive (50) surrounds within a projectile cap (24) a conical projection (30) of a penetration core (18). Transmission of the firing effect from the secondary explosive (50) is effected through a central through bore (40) of the penetration core (18) to a large-volume bursting charge (60) arranged in a projectile body (10).

Fuseless ballistic explosive projectile

A ballistic projectile including a subcaliber-sized penetrator which is coaxially carried in the casing of the projectile, and in which the penetrator additionally carries an explosive charge. The projectile possesses a proximity fuze at its tip which electrically triggers a penetrator-propellent charge which is arranged in the projectile base and which fills the volume of the projectile base, which accelerates the penetrator through a therebetween arranged propellant base, and in which the penetrator additionally possesses an impact detonator.

Projectile

A warhead which may be integrated, for example, in a bazooka, is capable of shooting through a wall protecting an enemy. For that purpose, a tandem charge includes a hollow charge which produces in the wall a firing passage for a follow-up charge. The follow-up charge is in the form of a fragmentation projectile which produces fragments behind the wall.

Warhead with a tandem charge

A shaped charge for missiles which are provided for defeating armored vehicles in such a manner that the flight path of the missile is beside, below or above the target. The warhead is ignited at an instant when the missile is either beside, below or above a weakly armored portion of the target. The shaped charge is characterized by a hollow body (liner), which is surrounded by an explosive charge. To compensate for the velocity of the missile, the explosive charge is designed such that the charge axis forms an angle with the axis of the inner counter of the hollow body (liner), and such that sections in planes normal to the axis of the inner liner contour have circular or elliptic cross sections. The liner may be designed in a way that the axes of the inner and the outer contours can be translated with respect to each other and/or inclined by a small angle toward each other. Also the cone angles of the inner and outer contours of the liner may be different.

Shaped charge for combating armored targets

An arrangement for cooling the gun barrel of a combat tank wherein the gun barrel is provided with helical cooling channels on its outer surface, and an insulation layer on at least the inner circumferential surfaces of the cooling channels. This reduces the IR signature of the gun barrel during combat and avoids deformation of the barrel under the influence of radiation from the sun.

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Eckental, Germany

Manfred Schildknecht