GUIDED MISSILE Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: military equipment. SUBSTANCE: the guided missile has a shaped-charge warhead and a movable warhead with a guiding tube fixed with possibility of movement and fixation relative to the warhead body, warhead driving-out mechanism having a gas generator with an electric primer and a corrugated sealing ring with a tapered external generatrix secured on the rear end face of the nose section made in the form of a truncated cone and forming together with the warhead funnel a working cavity, vent holes are made on the guiding tube generatrices, the driving-out mechanism is made for cut-off of gas pressure on completion of the working stroke by depressurization of the working cavity due to the vent holes, the working stroke makes up 0.15 to 0.25 of the total valve of retraction of the warhead, and the final volume of the working cavity at the end of the working stroke makes up 2 to 2.5 of the initial volume. EFFECT: enhanced reliability and stability of characteristics of the shaped- charge warhead with a retractable warhead. 2 dwg