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Armor-piercing projectile

  • US 10,436,557 B2
  • Filed: 04/18/2016
  • Issued: 10/08/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A projectile, comprising:

  • a penetrator and an incendiary charge inside an outer jacket;

    the penetrator includes a peripheral edge, a trailing extremity, a cylindrical main part between the peripheral edge and the trailing extremity, and a pointed armor-piercing leading extremity extending conically forwardly from the peripheral edge;

    the incendiary charge is ahead of the penetrator and includes a leading surface;

    the outer jacket includes a ballistic nose ahead of the incendiary charge;

    the ballistic nose has a trailing nose surface in direct contact against the leading surface of the incendiary charge; and

    the penetrator is behind, and is not in contact with, the incendiary charge, the cylindrical main part extends forwardly from the trailing extremity to the peripheral edge, the pointed armor-piercing leading extremity extending conically forwardly from the peripheral edge resides uncontacted within an empty space inside the outer jacket between and separating the pointed armor-piercing leading extremity and the incendiary charge, the empty space extends forwardly from the peripheral edge of the penetrator, and an inner surface of the outer jacket bears against an outer surface of the cylindrical main part thereby holding the penetrator to the outer jacket.

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