DISPOSABLE ROCKET LAUNCHER Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: military equipment, applicable mainly in constructions of disposable rocket launchers. SUBSTANCE: the disposable rocket launcher has a launching pack with end covers that are released at a launch, sight and a firing mechanism, rocket projectile, jet engine with an orifice in the front bottom directed in its axis to the cavity of the launching pack between it and the rocket projectile, and couplings connecting the jet engine to the launching pack and the rocket projectile and destructed at a shot. Made in the bottom of the rocket projectile in its axis is an end face recess having a local annular bore linked with the cavity of the launching pack through tangential holes uniformly arranged in its circumference, and a gas passage is installed between the jet engine and the rocket projectile, one end of the gas passage is rigidly fastened to the front bottom of the jet engine around the orifice in it, and the other is buried in the end-face recess in the bottom of the rocket projectile and has radial holes and end grooves with a lateral flow area equal to or exceeding the area of the orifice in the front bottom of the jet engine. EFFECT: enhanced accuracy of fire and reduced influence of cross-wind forces acting on the rocket projectile, jet engine and launching pack at a launch. 3 dwg