Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for correcting the trajectory (7, 8, 10, 11) of a spin-stabilised projectile (12) in azimuth by controlling its rate of spin by devices (18-21) deployable on the outside of the projectile (12) where they act on the airflow.
Abstract: A loading system of artillery guns to enable modular charges that are combinable into larger units to be handled in a main magazine with a number of mutually parallel magazine tubes designed to accommodate the modular charges and a retrieval tube whose infeed/outfeed aperture can be docked with the outfeed aperture of any magazine tube. The retrieval tube is used to transfer a selected number of modular charges from the magazine tubes to a loading pendulum used for loading the gun.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 27, 2000
Date of Patent:
September 10, 2002
Assignee:
Bofors Weapon Systems, AB
Inventors:
Lars-Olov Lindskog, Jörgen Bergmark, Björn Lundblad
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for avoiding uneven ignition when initiating artillery propellant powder charges (1) which comprise a plurality of partial charges of the so-called modular type and which are initiated by means of laser initiation systems or conventional ignition cartridges. The invention also includes artillery propellant powder charge modules designed in accordance with this method. The invention is also based on the fact that each such charge module or modular charge has on the one hand been provided with an initiating charge (18, 19) at each end of the central ignition channel (11), where this initiating charge can consist for example of black powder, and, on the other hand, the middle part of the same ignition channel has been provided with a specially designed firing unit (14) consisting of a number of ring elements between which narrow ignition gaps (17) are maintained.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 4, 2000
Date of Patent:
July 9, 2002
Assignee:
Bofors Weapon Systems AB
Inventors:
Neile Nilsson, Larseric Larsson, Anders Hafstrand