Abstract: A rotor for a centrifugal launching device supported for rotation about an axis and including a cylindrical barrel. The axis of rotation and longitudinal axis of the barrel define two straight lines skewed with respect to each other to permit the launching of projectiles having an oblong configuration.

Abstract: A distributor for feeding projectiles to the trajectory of a projectile engaging vane carried by a cylindrical gun in a centrifugal launcher of the type including a rotor having an open central zone, the distributor being defined by a support provided with a transfer zone and a passage for storing a plurality of projectiles that are fed by a jack into the transfer zone for successive engagement by a slide, the latter being periodically advanced in synchronization with rotation of the rotor to engage and bring each projectile against an anvil and in the trajectory of the projectile engaging vane. The slide blocks the passage while in its advanced position, and unblocks the passage when retracted to permit feeding of the projectiles into the transfer zone. An engagable lock maintains the slide in the advanced position in opposition to its retraction.

Abstract: A projectile for a gun-vane centrifugal launching device is disclosed, of the type with an ogival head, a body and a tail of decreasing section. The body is cylindrical and the weight of the tail is chosen in such a way that the center of gravity of the projectile lays in the plane where the body joins the tail or in the immediate vicinity of this plane. The shape of the said tail is such that no point of the surface of the latter touches the wall of the gun-vane, particularly during the ejection of the projectile.