Rheinmetall Waffe Munition Gmbh

Norbert Kohnen

Berthold Baumann

Ralf-Joachim Herrmann

Ralf-Joachim Hermann

A mortar includes at least one barrel mounted movably over a ball journal in a bottom supporting device, and an aiming device serving to aim the barrel vertically and horizontally. In order to be able to aim the barrel of the mortar automatically in a simple and cost advantageous manner, the aiming device preferably comprises a carriage that can be moved along guideways essentially horizontally towards or away from the barrel. At the carriage, the first end region of a pivoted arm is mounted so that it can be rotated about a pivot axis, and the second end region of the pivoted arm is connected with a spherical plain bearing, guiding the barrel. The spherical plain bearing embraces a housing part, which is open at its end faces and in which an inner part is mounted spherically (rotatably), which contains a cylindrical barrel guide, for movably accommodating the barrel.

Mortar

The invention relates to a weapon (), constructed relatively simply and compactly, for shooting ammunition (), with a barrel () with recoil and a braking device () damping the barrel recoil. According to the invention, a plastically deformable absorption body () is used as the braking device () for reducing the recoil energy. Thus, a weapon assembly for firing ammunition is provided, wherein the weapon assembly includes: (a) a weapon including a weapon barrel provided with a recoil spring that holds the weapon barrel in an initial position; and (b) a braking device that damps barrel recoil of the weapon barrel when firing ammunition, wherein the braking device is a plastically deformable absorption body.

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Viersen, Germany

Norbert Kohnen