CONTROLLED ARTILLERY PROJECTILE Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC F42B15/00 

FIELD: weapons and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: artillery projectile includes control compartment with control equipment, detonating fuse with electric contacts, explosive assembly with annular slot on the front end around detonating fuse, shoe from insulating material and electric power supply device to detonating fuse. Shoe is provided with transverse and radial slots and fixed in rectangular radial slot formed on the front end of military assembly between annular slot and detonating fuse. Electric power supply device to detonating fuse is made in the form of number of multi-stranded conductors assembled in flat bundle fixed on elastic guide made in the form of split ring. On one end of elastic guide there formed with an offset towards military assembly is a section passing through transverse slot of shoe and ending with annular bend fixed on the shoe. Conductors of the bundle are arranged in radial inclined slot of shoe with direction towards the centre of detonating fuse and fixed on its electric contacts. Opposite ends of multi-stranded conductors of flat bundle are connected to plug fixed on other end of elastic guide and joining the mating part of connector arranged on inner end surface of control compartment. Elastic guide with flat bundle is laid into annular slot of the front end of military assembly.

EFFECT: higher reliability of projectile operation.

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