Diehl Gmbh & Co.

Gebruder Junghans Gmbh

Diehl Stiftung & Co.

Werner Rudenauer

Wilhelm Furst

Fritz Muller

Norbert Liebl

Gunter Postler

Joachim Furtmayr

Dieter Kufner

Erich Bock

Klaus Lindstadt

Wolfgang Schillinger

Manfred Schildknecht

Max Rentzsch

Wolfgang Zehnder

Rainer Siebert

Wolfgang Von Entress-Fursteneck

Manfred Klare

Anton Brunner

Dietmar Kugler

Joachim Furtmeyr

Bernd Less

Ralf Siewert

Erwin Haas

Hartmut Gessler

A triggering arrangement for the priming or initiation of an anti-shelter projectile and more particularly, the triggering or detonation of the warhead of the projectile subsequent to the penetrating of the shelter wall structure. The triggering arrangement is provided with a time-delay device which delivers a trigger-releasing signal in dependence upon reaching of the entry of the through-passage into the shelter wall or the exit from the passage through the shelter wall.

Triggering arrangement for the priming of an anti-shelter projectile

Objects are detonated by placing charges adjacent respective ones of the objects and connecting the charges to a time fuse by means of respective explosive cords for detonating all of the charges simultaneously when the time fuse fires. The time fuse can be set by fitting a clock to the time fuse. The clock has separate timer mechanisms which can be wound-up simultaneously and which prevent the clock from being fitted to the time fuse if the timer mechanisms have run down asynchronously. An adapter can be attached to the time fuse for releasing a safety of the time fuse upon receiving a remote signal such as an encoded radio signal.

Apparatus for detonating a plurality of objects

An impact fuse for a projectile comprises a firing needle and a main detonator carried by a rotor. The rotor is rotatable about an axis, upon launching of the projectile, and is rotated by centrifugal force from a safety position to a firing position in which the firing needle is aligned with the main detonator. Upon target impact, the rotor is displaced axially to cause the firing needle to detonate the main detonator. Acceleration forces occurring upon launching cause a piercing pin to activate a delay detonator. After a pre-selected time delay, the activated delay detonator emits a gas which displaces the rotor axially and produces detonation of the main detonator, in the absence of target impact.

Percussion fuse for ammunition

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 fuze for a bomblet including a slider in which there is arranged a detonator triggered in response to an impact or percussion, and which undergoes a transition during the free flight of the bomblet from a safe or secured position into an armed position. Arranged in the slider is a hydraulic or penumatic cylinder-piston retarding device and a spring-biased self-destruct pin which is operatively coupled to the device, which has a self-destruct detonator associated therewith, wherein the retarding device is blocked until the slider is generally located in the armed position thereof, and in which the retarding device, in the armed position of the slider, will brake the movement of the self-destruct pin during a self-destruct time period and thereafter will cause the releast of the latter.

Fuze for a bomblet

An ejectable or launchable member which possesses a storage space for a parachute. An ejectable member of the type which is under consideration herein has the dimensions of the constructional elements reduced in the periphery of a parachute cassette, so as to resultingly provide for savings in deployment weight, and at a given caliber, to be able to increase the amount of storage space which is available for the parachute.

Ejectable member with parachute

A pyrotechnic fuze for projectiles, rockets, bomblets and mines, which is basically a pyrotechnic self-destruct device, in which a triggering device for a pyrotechnic delay arrangement is arranged within a housing. The triggering device consists of an igniting composition and a delay composition, a detonator for the triggering of an explosive charge and a striker for the detonator, whereby the detonator is arranged in a transversely movable slider.

Pyrotechnic fuze for projectiles

A pyrotechnic fuze for projectiles, rockets, bomblets and mines, which possesses a triggering device for a delay detonator in a transversely movable slider housing, and a detonator for the triggering of an explosive charge, whereby the delay detonator is arranged to extend transversely relative to the detonator.

Pyrotechnic fuze for projectiles, rockets, bomblets and mines

A fuze for a parachute-stabilized or band-stabilized small bomb which rotates during flight, including a detonator arranged in a transversely movable slider; a detonator pin for blocking the slider in a secured position thereof through engagement into a bore, and wherein the detonator pin can be turned out of the bore by the rotating parachute or band through the intermediary of a screw-coupling in a housing. A pyrotechnic charge or composition is arranged within the slider and which serves as a timing element, which charge is ignited by a destructor pin supported in the slider, whereby the pyrotechnic charge will trigger the detonator at its exit side, and in the secured position, the detonator pin will block the resiliently pretensioned destructor pin.

Fuze for a parachute-stabilized or band-stabilized small bomb which

A safe and arm device including a sensor-controlled switch arrangement in an electrical series-circuit, which is arranged ahead of a secondary-explosive detonator, especially for a submunition-projectile. The safe and arm device possesses a first switch which is actuatable at the presence of a surrounding air onflow against the submunition carrier in dependence upon a submunition ejecting command; and wherein a second switch is actuatable by the first switch when the submunition-projectile has released itself from its carrier and has implemented a transition into a gliding flight phase searching for a target.

Safe and arm device for a secondary-explosive detonator

A detonator securing device for the combat charge of a projectile, including a detonator locking slide, and an impeller-generator movable along a slider guide transverse of the longitudinal axis of a projectile to a position outwardly of the wall thereof, the electrical energy of which generator serves for the release of a securing latch for the detonator locking slide.

Detonator securing device

A fuse or triggering device for a small bomb arranged in an artillery grenade, which includes a percussion fuse constituted of a striker and a detonator. The above-mentioned artillery grenade contains a plurality of small bombs arranged behind each other, which are ejected at a predetermined point in the trajectory of the artillery grenade. Each small bomb possesses an autonomous fuse. A slider containing the detonator is secured in a safety position, in that the slider lies against an outwardly pivotable securing lever which lies resiliently prestressed against the inner wall of a further small bomb, and in which the striker is fixed in position between the slider and a securing disc which is deformable in response to the firing acceleration of the artillery grenade.

Fuse for a small bomb

A detonator triggering device which is located in the head of an underwater projectile, and wherein a pressure receiver which is positioned within an opening in the projectile head is exposed to a dynamic pressure or velocity head. A piezo-ceramic disc which is equipped with electrical contacts is rigidly supported on one side thereof in the head of the projectile, and with its other side contacts against a pressure transmitting member which is supported within the opening in the head. As a result, the dynamic pressure will act against the piezo-ceramic disc. Every change in the dynamic pressure consequently provides for a corresponding change in the charge or change in the voltage of the piezo-ceramic disc. This permits itself to be processed in an electronic evaluating or gating circuit, such that the applicable voltage change is employed as the actuating criteria.

Detonator triggering device

An electrical projectile detonator, particularly a base detonator or fuse which incorporates a piezoceramic cell as a current generator wherein it is possible to generate a voltage through the intermediary of the gas pressure of a pyrotechnic explosive charge. The piezoceramic cell is arranged in a tail-ended cup-like recess of the projectile base, or in a threaded base, so as to be positioned against an intermediate base element serving as an anvil and covered by a pressure plate, which by means of the gas pressure of the projectile impelling charge acting on a tail-ended closure disc or the like during the discharge of the projectile, can be pressed against the piezoceramic cell.

Electrical projectile detonator

An ignition or firing voltage generator adapted to be actuated only proximate the peak of an inertial force and, in its equilibrium position will not emit a voltage even when subjected to hard shocks. A piezoceramic cell, as well as a solid body which is arranged axially adjacent thereto, are located within a preferably cylindrical support member which is axially displaceably guided within a tubularly-shaped component of an igniter housing, but in the initial position thereof is so restrained through the utilization of a securing element in the configuration of a shear element, spring fastener or the like, that its base is located at a defined spacing opposite a base plate of the igniter or detonator housing. A securing element of that type, without difficulty, may be so dimensioned that it will only first release the support member, when it is influenced by approximately the maximum inertial force. The base of the support member facing towards the base plate of the igniter housing, and/or the base plate of the igniter housing facing towards the base of the support member, may be slightly cambered or curved. A short-circuiting bridge which, in the initial position of the voltage generator, connects the two voltage poles of the piezoceramic cell and, in response to the axial displacement of the support member, will rupture at a notched location, so that in the equilibrium position, voltages generated in the cell through shock or vibration cannot lead to a faulty or unintended powering of the igniter or detonator fuse.

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