ARTILLERY SMALL-CALIBER CARTRIDGE Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC F42B5/08 F42C19/12 

FIELD: ammunition modified for electric ignition.

SUBSTANCE: the cartridge has a shell, cartridge case with a propellant charge, which communicates with the bottom electric cap device containing a cylindrical threaded case in which a coaxial current tap is installed through a non-current-conducting bush, the current tap adjoins the lower of the two disk electrodes separated by an insulating pad, the electrodes are connected by a resistance bridge positioned in an initiating compound communicating with an ignition charge filling the shell resting on the upper electrode linked with the case, whose open end is rolled on the side of the propellant charge of the cartridge case. The case is made with a shoulder, the central current tap is made with an obturation flange installed on the case shoulder, the current tap and the case are geometrically closed via the bush, and the shell of the ignition charge has a downward construction.

EFFECT: enhanced functional reliability of the cartridge, provided universality of its use in combination with stability of the ballistic characteristics of projectiles.

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