RECOILLESS RIFLE FOR FIRING BY GUIDED MISSILES Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: military equipment. SUBSTANCE: the recoilless rifle has a barrel-container with a high-pressure chamber with a powder charge and front and rear nozzle units secured in it on radial pylons in a spaced relation, installed from the rear end of the barrel is a deflector of the powder gas jet, closing the gap between the barrel- container and the high-pressure chamber. The deflector is made in the form of a thin-walled taper ring secured in the barrel, whose generatrix makes up acute angle α with the plane of the end of the rear nozzle unit, and its smaller base is located inside the barrel-container between the end of the rear nozzle unit and the end of the barrel-container. EFFECT: reduced danger area behind the rifle caused by the jet of flowing-out powder gases. 1 dwg