Rheinmetall W & M Gmbh

Michael Imdahl

Thomas Heitmann

Michael Vagedes

Torsten Niemeyer

Uwe Naderhoff

Rudolf Rombach

J&uuml;rgen Kolodzey

Manfred Dieter Schwies

Thomas Heitman

A full-caliber projectile having a cylindrical guide region ( ) and an ogival projectile tip ( ). To improve the stabilization of the projectile ( ) inside a gun barrel ( ) in a simple manner, and therefore improve the intermediate ballistics and hit accuracy over those of comparable projectiles, a guide ring ( ), which is segmented in the circumferential direction, and whose outer diameter is smaller than the inner diameter of a gun barrel ( ) of the same caliber, is secured to the projectile tip ( ) such that the radially spaced guide-ring segments ( ) detach from the projectile ( ) in the gun barrel ( ) when a predetermined firing acceleration occurs in the gun barrel, and the segments ( ) are pushed toward the projectile ( ), axially relative to the cylindrical guide region ( ), by dynamic pressure until they rest against the inside wall ( ) of the gun barrel ( ) and against the projectile ( ).

Full-caliber projectile

A missile includes a missile body and a guide assembly mounted on the missile body. The guide assembly has a plurality of pivots and a plurality of vanes mounted on respective pivots for a swinging motion between a folded position of rest and a deployed flight position. The vanes are arranged for free pivotal motion during flight in response to forces acting thereon to determine the flight position. In the folded position of each vane, its center of gravity is situated at a greater distance from the longitudinal axis of the missile body than the pivotal axis of the respective vanes. Abutments limit the flight position of the vanes to a maximum angle between the length dimension of the vanes and the longitudinal axis of the missile body. The maximum angle is greater than 90&deg;.

Guide assembly for a missile

A cartridge includes a cartridge case having a cartridge base; a projectile having a rearward portion received by the cartridge case; a propellant primer disposed in the cartridge case and extending along the longitudinal cartridge axis; an electrically programmable projectile fuze disposed in the projectile; an electrode disposed at the cartridge base; a plug mounted on the propellant primer at a frontal end thereof; a first contact carried by the plug; a first conductor extending in the propellant primer and connecting the first contact with the electrode; a socket, formed on the rearward portion of the projectile, receives and surrounds the plug; a second contact carried by the socket and being in electric contact with the first contact; and a second conductor extending in the projectile and connecting the second contact with the projectile fuze.

Artillery cartridge having an internal conductor arrangement

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