CARTRIDGES WITH REACTIVE PIERCING PART Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: fixed and separate ammunition. SUBSTANCE: cartridge has a case with an ejection charge, ignition means and a reactive piercing part made in the form of a bullet or shell. Installed inside the case between the powder charge and back end face of the bullet or shell is a sealing thin-walled washer of material indestructible by the pressure of the ejection charge combustion products, which adjoins the back end face of the bullet or shell and has in the center an ignition device that is made for a delay of ignition of the solid-fuel charge of the bullet or shell up to the instant they leave the barrel. The thin-walled washer has an aligned tapering forward lug directed inside the nozzle, adjoining its inner surface at the nozzle outlet. The washer back end face rests on the lug on the case inner surface. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency. 2 cl, 1 dwg