Diehl Gmbh & Co.

Nikolaus Argyrakis

Dietmar Stutzle

Friedrich Lindner

Ammunition incorporating a sensing fuse and a parachute, and which has the trajectory thereof correctable during its final flight phase, and a method for the combating of armored target objects with the utilization of such ammunition. The ammunition with the sensing fuse is equipped with a pulse transmitter for a course alignment or correction in the direction towards the lateral or sideways offset of a target object which has been detected by the sensing fuse, and with devices for suspending the action of a parachute during the approach to a target by the ammunition along a quasi-ballistic trajectory.

Ammunition incorporating searching fuse with trajectory correctable

An arrangement for generating a firing or triggering signal for a projectile which is conveyed in a flying body overflying a target, wherein a target identifying circuit requires a processing period for the identification of a detected target pursuant to predetermined characteristics, and in which, subsequent to a waiting period dependent upon the flying altitude, there occurs a delay or lag period between the initiation of the firing signal and the ejection or, respectively, target impact of the projectile. For the target determination, an optical sensor arrangement is directed at a first acute angle relative to the flight trajectory of the flying body; wth this angle being so calculated that at a minimum flying altitude of the flying altitude of the flying body, the flying time from the target determination up to the overflight of a certical above the target is at least equal to the sum of the processing period and the delay or lag period, and in which the sensor arrangement is set a second acute angle which is larger than the first angle after the identification of a selected target, and which takes into consideration the delay period and the flying altitude.

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Nikolaus Argyrakis