ARTILLERY FUSE Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: military equipment, applicable for ammunition of various designation. SUBSTANCE: the fuse has a reaction striker with a firing pin, case, spring, upper and lower balls and a safety cap, a rigid safety pin is introduced between the reaction and inertia strikers, an annular groove is made on the safety cap from its inner part, and its height is determined by relation: h=(0.6...0.8)H, where h - the height of the groove; H - the thickness of the upper part of the cap. EFFECT: enhanced effect of target hitting at shooting from smoothbore artillery systems by shells with an opening tail assembly due to the enhanced safety at the instant of opening of the shell tail assembly, and reliability of action at shooting on an observed target at a ricochet range in any meteorological conditions. 1 dwg