SMOKE AMMUNITION Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: war industry, in particular, production of ammunition capable of producing special interferences preventing visual and instrumental detection of the protected object. SUBSTANCE: in the smoke grenade containing a cylindrical body with an active load, cylinder-shaped in the form of a set of disks of smoke-forming material with a central hole, knocked-out cover closing the cylindrical body from the top, and a contact head closing the cylindrical body from the bottom, containing a bursting charge, igniter and a device of pyrotechnic retardation of ignition, the active load is placed in a cylindrical protective shell made of longitudinal fragments of a pipe, whose outside diameter equals the inside diameter of the cylindrical body, and the contact head is provided with a propellant charge, the device of pyrotechnic retardation and the propellant charge are installed in succession between the propellant charge and the active load. EFFECT: enhanced accuracy of placement of volumetric smoke barrage in real time directly in the preset point of trajectory. 5 cl, 3 ex