EP 0123978 B1 19871209 - NOSE CAP FOR A PROJECTILE WITH AN ARMOUR-PIERCING CORE
Title (en)
NOSE CAP FOR A PROJECTILE WITH AN ARMOUR-PIERCING CORE
Publication
Application
Priority
DE 3314751 A 19830423
Abstract (en)
[origin: US4714024A] An improved nose construction for a subcaliber inertial projectile which is fired with the aid of a sabot. A hood or body is mounted on the nose portion of the projectile. The hood is made of synthetic material and includes longitudinally extending fracture zones and is of substantially cylindrical shape. The frontal portion of the hood is recessed and forms an air flow receiving surface. In lieu of a hood a body, made of a thermoplastic material or the like, may be mounted on the nose portion. This body is adapted to disintegrate as result of air friction. The presence of the hood or body on the nose portion of the projectile, as it exits from a non-illustrated gun barrel, avoids or at least reduces unfavorable air-streaming forces which destabilize the flight characteristics of the projectile and thereby favors a uniform separation of the sabot segments from the projectile. Such uniform separation reduces or completely eliminates undesirable oscillations during flight of the projectile. After the hood or body have disintegrated the projectile acquires a more favorable cw value (drag coefficient during flight.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
F42B 14/06 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
F42B 14/061 (2013.01 - EP US)
Citation (examination)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE DE FR GB IT
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 0123978 A2 19841107; EP 0123978 A3 19850515; EP 0123978 B1 19871209; AT E31364 T1 19871215; DE 3314751 A1 19841025; DE 3468072 D1 19880121; US 4714024 A 19871222
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 84104043 A 19840411; AT 84104043 T 19840411; DE 3314751 A 19830423; DE 3468072 T 19840411; US 87404886 A 19860613