SEPARATING GUIDE DEVICE OF SUBCALIBER ROCKET PROJECTILE Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: small-sized subcaliber rocket projectiles fires from launching tubes - containers with a device for centering and direction of subcaliber projectiles in the launching tube. SUBSTANCE: the separating guide device consists of sectors in the form of hollow half-rings with stiffening ribs. Positioned on the external surface of the half-rings in annular groove is a flat spring secured by screws. At a start of the subcaliber rocket projectile from the launching tube-container, the guide device, moving together with the projectile, comes out of the launching tube. The scragged spring rushes to the initial flat shape due to which the pins get disengaged from the projectile body, i.e. from the location holes, and the half-rings get separated from the projectile body. Under the action of the mass of the half-rings and force of the spring pressure on the projectile body through a stop formed by the ends of the half-rings the guide device is dropped. EFFECT: improved design. 2 dwg