ARTILLERY MOUNT AND GUNSHOT TO IT Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: material of self-propelled guns. SUBSTANCE: artillery mount uses barrel, breechblock, cradle, protective guard, laying device, loading mechanisms, ammunition stowage, armament stabilizer, sight, ballistic data computer, shot enabling unit; barrel recoil pickup is additionally furnished at least with one terminal for automatic readout of information on the gunshot type and ballistic characteristics applied onto the shell and shell case surface and an on-board computer interfaced with the terminal, loading mechanism, barrel recoil pickup, ballistic data computer; for firing artillery mount uses gunshots with information on gunshot type and ballistic characteristics (deviation from tabular muzzle velocity, depending on lot of propellant charge, etc. ) applied onto external surfaces of shell and shell case with propellant charge coded with primed symbols on the form of light and dark rings alternating by definite method. Information read out by terminal in the process of gunshot feed is used for computation of sighting angles and interlocking of the drive of the gun loading feed piece. EFFECT: improved design. 2 cl, 2 dwg