CARTRIDGE Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: cartridges for hand grenade launchers and industrial launching devices.

SUBSTANCE: the cartridge has a double-chamber cartridge case, metal thin-walled shell with a bottom, warhead with a bottom channel component of a pyrotechnical compound armored over the surface facing the shell, and a head component of a metal combustible repeating the shape of the shell bottom, bottom of plastic with a driving band and a duct, in which the edge of the shell open end face is rolled down. The bottom has a through opening, in which a pyrotechnical fuse is installed on the side of the cartridge case, the fuse has a through duct. A pyrotechnical cartridge is pressed in the duct, the time of its end face burning is less than the flight time for the maximum firing range, and a partition with a discharge opening is made. An open cavity is formed in the duct on the side of the warhead, in which a bulk, ejecting pyrotechnical charge pressed to the partition by a wad is positioned.

EFFECT: enhanced firing range by 20 to 25 per cent, practically twice as mach amount of igniting compound may be carried to the maximum firing range, essentially enhanced area of destruction.

4 cl, 1 dwg