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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2014
Applicants:
Anthony P. Farina, Hackettstown, NJ (US);
Brian Wong, Hamburg, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Anthony P. Farina, Hackettstown, NJ (US);
Brian Wong, Hamburg, NJ (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B 15/10 (2006.01); F42B 10/38 (2006.01); F42B 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B 15/10 (2013.01); F42B 12/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A gun-launched, non-lethal, anti-personnel projectile includes a variable thrust, solid propellant rocket motor. The rocket motor has a variable thrust profile that maintains a substantially constant kinetic energy of the projectile below a lethal threshold from a range of about 5 meters to about 400 meters.