EXERCISE SHOT TO GRENADE LAUNCHER Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC F42B8/00 F42B8/12 

FIELD: weapons and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to exercise shots for conducting training shootings at study and trainings of military personnel, and namely using grenades of a rifle-attached grenade launcher, which contain pyrotechnic armament that is dispersed in the form of a gaseous force formed during chemical reactions of its burning. An exercise shot to a grenade launcher includes a nose fuse fixed on a mounting conical transition piece of a thin-wall housing. The housing is equipped with an annular row of projections for inclined grooves of the gun barrel and is rigidly attached to a shank, in the bottom part of which a powder propellant charge is arranged. The charge is initiated with a central igniter capsule of a membrane. Besides, the exercise shot includes a pyrotechnic candle of functional munition. The nose fuse is made in the form of a mass-and-dimensional dummy, and the pyrotechnic candle of a red signal light is equipped with an interlayer fixed on the edge and made from ignition compound including powder of metallic fuel. The candle is installed above propellant powder charge in a compensating inert sleeve of the housing, which is solidly connected to the shank; with that, a pyroheater disc is arranged between the signal candle and the propellant charge.

EFFECT: improvement of safety of training shootings and functional reliability of exercise shot of a simpler design.

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