Rheinmetall Gmbh

Rheinmetall Landsysteme Gmbh

Tzn Forschungs- Und Entwicklungszentrum Unterluss Gmbh

Rheinmetall Industrie Gmbh

Wolfgang Boer

Wilfried Becker

Erich Zielinski

Josef Metz

Adolf Nordmann

Herbert Krumm

Hans-Ulrich Desgranges

Hans Moser

Jochen Hoff

Hans Hulsewies

Karlheinz Reinelt

A weapon system includes a carrier vehicle and a vehicle dependent mortar, wherein the carrier vehicle has a crew space and a weaponry space to house the mortar, and the mortar is charged in an index position with mortar grenades, with several sheddable propellant modules on the tail shaft thereof. The weapon system avoids manual loading of the mortar with mortar grenades because an automatic loader is arranged in a weapon space separated from the crew space by a separating wall. The loader transports the mortar grenade from a magazine in the weapon space into the index position of the barrel of the mortar and axially inserts it into the mouth of the barrel, and an automatic shedding device is arranged in the weapon space to automatically remove unnecessary propellant modules from the mortar grenade after fixing target parameters and before insertion of the mortar grenade into the barrel.

Weapon system with a carrier vehicle and a preferably vehicle dependent mortar

A gun barrel has an erosion-reducing, electrically non-conductive lining extending along a length portion of the gun barrel. The lining is made of a polyimide.

Gun barrel having an erosion-reducing lining

A tank turret including an armored turret housing having a front side provided with solid front armor, and a pivotally mounted gun including a cradle shield, cradle, recoil device and rearward breech block housing being arranged in the turret housing. The armored turret housing, or at least parts of it, are used to increase recoil mass of the gun.

Tank turret with increased recoil mass

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Dusseldorf, Germany

Wolfgang Boer