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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2023
Government of the United States, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (US);
Michael Anderson, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Grant Appel, O'Fallon, IL (US);
Seth Konig, El Dorado Hills, CO (US);
George Gardner, Butler, MO (US);
Shawn Mathis, Waco, TX (US);
William Yates, Columbia, SC (US);
John Olson, Lakeville, MN (US);
Hugh Briggs, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (US);
Abstract
A magazine for loading projectiles into a launch assembly by gravity feed. The magazine has a plurality blades radially extending from a central axis and defining a like plurality of compartments in an axially rotatable ring. The ring rests upon a stationary deck plate having a hole for gravity feed of the projectile into the launch assembly below. Projectiles having different fight characteristics are deposited into the compartments at a safe location, supported by the deck plate and the launch assembly with an associated device are transported to a hostile environment. A first projectile is launched by the launch assembly in a longitudinal direction. The launch assembly is retracted, automatically indexing the rotatable ring and dropping the next projectile through the hole and into the launch assembly for subsequent launch.