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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2003
Heinz-günter Breuer, Duisburg, DE;
Heinz-Günter Breuer, Duisburg, DE;
Rheinmetall W&M GmbH, Unterluss, DE;
Abstract
A gun barrel having a muzzle brake (), especially for large-caliber guns, in which the muzzle brake () includes a tubular piece that has openings () around its circumference, and a jacket tube (), which surrounds the tubular piece and has diametrically opposite gas-exit openings () that extend perpendicular to the bore longitudinal axis (). To provide an arrangement comprising a barrel () and a muzzle brake () that minimizes the firing stresses on the parts of the muzzle brake () that are detachably connected to the barrel (), the muzzle region () of the barrel () itself is used as a component of the muzzle brake (That is, the muzzle region of the barrel is provided with a plurality of openings () arranged in ring formation around the barrel (), and the attached the jacket tube () is provided with slot-shaped gas-exit openings () over this muzzle region ().