Ammunition
First Claim
1. In an ammunition round having a projectile secured in a mouth of a cartridge case, said case having means for operatively launching said projectile,said projectile having a main body portion and a forward ogive portion, said ogive portion having a forwardmost nose member containing fuze means,an ogival ejection element carried by a rearward portion of said ogive portion,ignition means interconnecting said ogival ejection element with said fuze means,a plurality of launch tubes secured in a base support positioned in said projectile main body portion, each launch tube carrying a plurality of sub-projectiles, a rearmost primer, and a plurality of sequentially initiated traveling charges intermediate said sub-projectiles and said primer,an initiator secured in a base portion of said projectile main body portion, andignition means interconnecting said initiator with said ogival ejection element and each of said launch tube primers.
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Abstract
A hypervelocity ammunition round in which a spin stabilized artillery projectile contains a plurality of subcaliber gun tubes for launching subcaliber spin stabilized projectiles from the artillery projectile at a predetermined point in its trajectory, as the artillery projectile performs as a moving gun platform to more effectively defeat a multiplicity of targets through the kinetic energy impact of the subcaliber projectiles.
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1. In an ammunition round having a projectile secured in a mouth of a cartridge case, said case having means for operatively launching said projectile,
said projectile having a main body portion and a forward ogive portion, said ogive portion having a forwardmost nose member containing fuze means, an ogival ejection element carried by a rearward portion of said ogive portion, ignition means interconnecting said ogival ejection element with said fuze means, a plurality of launch tubes secured in a base support positioned in said projectile main body portion, each launch tube carrying a plurality of sub-projectiles, a rearmost primer, and a plurality of sequentially initiated traveling charges intermediate said sub-projectiles and said primer, an initiator secured in a base portion of said projectile main body portion, and ignition means interconnecting said initiator with said ogival ejection element and each of said launch tube primers.
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