PROJECTILE WITH READY-MADE INJURIOUS MEMBERS Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: ammunition with guided fragmentation injury fields. SUBSTANCE: projectile has a casing, accommodating a body, bottom powder charge, fuze with a receiver of the time, non-contact or command type, and the body has a bursting unit in the form of a casing with an explosive charge and detonator located in the positioned in an annular gap between the external surface of the bursting unit and internal surface of the casing. The control system is made for blasting the bursting unit both after ejection of the unit from the projectile casing and when it stays inside the casing. In the first case an axial field of injury is formed, and in the other case - a circular field. EFFECT: realized compression and penetrating-high-explosive action of projectile, formation of axial, circular fields of the fields of injury or of both of them at a time. 22 cl, 36 dwg