BARREL CLUSTER WITH PROJECTILES ARRANGED IN ITS AXIS Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: ammunition and firearm. SUBSTANCE: the barrel cluster has a great number of projectiles installed in the axis in the barrel jointly with discretely selected incendiary propellant charges, applicable for successive propelling of charges through the muzzle end of the barrel. The adjacent projectiles are separated from each other by means of separating means independent of the projectiles. A solid propellant charge located between the adjacent projectiles may be used as a separating means, or it may be a rigid envelope of the propellant charge. At an action of load inside the barrel the section of the rear flare of the active charge gets expanded outside due to engagement with the recess directed inside with a decrease of the dimension and formed on the rear end of the projectile, which receives the making-up front section of the propellant charge or envelope of the propellant charge. EFFECT: simplified loading and reloading. 14 cl, 17 dwg