CASSETTE WARHEAD Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC F42B12/58 

FIELD: weapons and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: cassette warhead comprises a body, tubular cassettes with an ejection charge and damaging agents with an opening stabiliser. Each cassette in the front part is tightly closed and aligned towards the nose part of the warhead body. The coordinate of the cassette centre of mass from the front part makes 0.42...0.52 of its length. Damaging agents are arranged in the cassette with their nose part forward in direction of their ejection from the cassette, and with the stabiliser - towards the ejection charge. The opening stabiliser of the damaging agents is made in the form of shields, external surface of which in cross direction is made as convex. The radius of the convex surface curve in shields makes 0.4…0.8 of maximum diameter of the damaging agent body, at the same time elements are fixed in the body on axes perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the element. Each shield of the stabiliser on the section of connection to the axis is equipped with two longitudinal stiffening ribs, in the lower part of which there is a bevel. The bevel makes an angle of 15°…45° with the outer convex surface of the shield. Under the shields in the damaging agent body and coaxially with it there is a support bushing installed with the possibility of displacement relative to it, being equipped with a compressed spring.

EFFECT: higher fighting efficiency of the cassette warhead.

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