CLUSTER AMMUNITION Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC F42B12/58 

FIELD: weapons and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to military equipment, in particular to cluster ammunition equipped with a volumetric-detonating, incendiary or smoke mixture and intended for engagement of enemy manpower and equipment, as well as smoke masking of troops and objects and dazzle enemy. In the ammunition used is a capsule, which body is filled with a volume-detonating mixture, in flight, the ammunition stabilization occurs due to empennage, distribution of fuel-air mixture at approach to target - due to actuation of dispersive charge, simultaneous detonation by initiating charges is provided. Cluster ammunition consists of two inserted one into another cylindrical barrels with covers, with blow-out charges, electric cup of the introduced cylindrical barrel and ammunition coaxially fixed to it in an inner cylindrical cup, a blowout charge with an impact mechanism is located inside the inner sleeve, exhaust cord in space between two cylindrical cups in container is fixed by one end to outer cylindrical barrel, and by the other to impact mechanism of the knockout charge of the inner cylindrical barrel. Ammunition is intended for target destruction. It is a fired artillery round projecting about a longitudinal axis in flight. Ammunition consists of capsule filled with fuel-and-air mixture, fuse, dispersing charge initiating charges.

EFFECT: invention can be used for fire extinguishing, destruction of ice congestion and ice on narrow sections of rivers during ice drift.

1 cl, 4 dwg