FRAGMENTATION MINE Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: land ammunition, in particular, directional fragmentation mines. SUBSTANCE: the offered mine has a guide case, in which the fragmentation ammunition is inserted from the top; the ammunition has a case made, for instance, of a light alloy or plastic, whose front wall is filled in with a set of prefabricated injurious elements, explosive charge and a detonator. Positioned in the cavity between the ammunition bottom and guide case bottom are the powder bursting charge connected through a tube to the fulminating detonator operating under the action of trip pull wire, and a cable connected to the guide case bottom and burster safety pin. The guide case and fragmentation ammunition are made in the form of a flat rectangular parallelepiped, or they are cambered in the direction of propulsion. Cambered fragmentation ammunition layer of explosive on its back side that is installed on the back side of the charge and cambered in the same direction. The plate radius of curvature exceeds the radius of curvature of the charge back side. EFFECT: enhanced wounding effect. 3 cl, 3 dwg