NECKLESS CARTRIDGE
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Abstract
A cartridge with a composite cartridge case includes a projectile with an ogee-shaped tip and a bottom end ending in a base, a flangeless tubular case delimiting a chamber accommodating a propulsive powder, closed at a first longitudinal end by a base with a primer and at the second end opposite to the first, by the base of the projectile, a part of the flangeless tubular case fitting snugly around part of the projectile and having itself, at least in part, a frustoconical external shape, the cartridge being characterized in that: the chamber accommodating the propulsive powder includes, at the projectile end, a reduction in its diameter over all or part of the periphery thereof down to the diameter of the base of the projectile, the ratio between the length of the tip of the projectile and the maximum diameter thereof is greater than or equal to 2.9.
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25 Claims
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1-10. -10. (canceled)
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11. A cartridge comprising, on the one hand, a projectile with an ogival-shaped nose and a base ending with a head and, on the other hand, a polymer neckless tubular case defining a propellant powder receiving chamber closed, on the one hand, at a first longitudinal end by a head with a primer and, on the other hand, at the second longitudinal end, opposite to the first longitudinal end, by the head of the projectile, with a portion of the neckless tubular case enclosing a portion of the projectile and the portion of the neckless tubular case enclosing a portion of the projectile having, at least in part, a frustoconical external shape, wherein:
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the propellant powder receiving chamber has, on the projectile side, a reduction of the diameter of the propellant powder receiving chamber over at least part of the periphery of the propellant powder receiving chamber up to the diameter of the head of the projectile, the ratio between the length of the nose of the projectile and the maximum diameter of the projectile is greater than or equal to 2.9. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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