ARTILLERY GUIDED MISSILE Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: military equipment, in particular, artillery guided missiles with a homing head at the final portion of the flight. SUBSTANCE: the artillery guided missile has a body, ballistic cone with a separation device in the form of a piston with a powder charge and fastened by destructible components, homing head, the piston is provided with a trailing- edge rib on the side of the destructible components with grooves parallel to the missile axis, which accommodate screws fastened in the conical shell of the cone, the piston is made in the form of double-step cylindrical bush, whose outer surfaces are engageable with the equidistant surfaces of the conical shell, fastened inside the smaller step of the bush on a thread is a set screw for adjustment of the piston stroke, engageable with a number of threaded radial pins secured in the nose section of the shell and sealed in the piston body. EFFECT: enhanced reliability of target destruction due to the reduced action of disturbing factors in the missile point at a release of the ballistic cone, 1 dwg