MISSILE LAUNCHING PLANT Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC F41F3/04 

FIELD: weapons and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: device for missile launch contains a running launch pipe with front and back end faces, which is connected with the carrier, a reflector hingedly fixed at a back end face of the running launch pipe and the reflector driving mechanism. The reflector is made consisting of bow-shaped trapezoid plates fixed hingedly on the launch pipe and installed with overlapping one with reference to another, forming a convex hemispherical screen. Plates are fitted with the driving mechanism.

EFFECT: improvement of reliability of operation of the device by decrease of gas-dynamic impact of discharge jet onto the reflector and the starting pipe with decrease of power impact onto the carrier during the missile launch.

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