TEST-TRAINING CARTRIDGE FOR GRENADE LAUNCHER Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC F42B8/02 

FIELD: training of personnel of military units.

SUBSTANCE: the cartridge has a propellant charge, loading chamber for it and a primer cap made as component of a small-arms live cartridge and a grenade simulator provided with a cartridge case simulator to the grenade launcher made integral with it. A through duct is made in the axis of the grenade and cartridge case simulators, a rifled barrel with a receiver is fastened in it, the respective small-arms live cartridge is positioned in the receiver, the cartridge case simulators is provided with a lock of the small-arms live cartridge that provides the arrangement of the bottom of the live cartridge case in the plane of the bottom of the cartridge case simulator, a tapered widening is made in the through duct on the side of the cartridge case simulator, this widening provides an elastic displacement in the radial direction for the lock, and the length of the barrel rifled section is made to provide a velocity for the small-arms cartridge bullet equal to the muzzle velocity of the grenade of the live cartridge for the grenade launcher.

EFFECT: reduced cost of a shot, enhanced safety of training, provided absence of action of the grenade simulator on the grenade launcher barrel at a slot.

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