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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
May. 11, 2010
Jean-francois Cazalieres, Saint Germain du Puy, FR;
Francois-xavier Renard, Bourges, FR;
Jean-Francois Cazalieres, Saint Germain du Puy, FR;
Francois-Xavier Renard, Bourges, FR;
Nexter Systems, Roanne, FR;
Abstract
The invention relates to firing brake assembly for weapons of the type incorporating an actual firing brake and means to modulate the function of said firing brake wherein the modulating means are in the form of a chamber equipped with a piston delimiting an upstream chamber and a downstream chamber, the upstream chamber communicating with the gun barrel by means of an upstream circuit ensuring that part of the combustion gases are taken up and a downstream chamber filled with a fluid and communicating with the firing brake by means of a downstream circuit.