Abstract: A neuromuscular disrupter gun and associated projectile. The projectile contains a capacitor, having either its dielectric or its plates made from liquid. The gun charges the projectile prior to discharge from the gun of the projectile. The projectile holds the charge in flight and discharges on impact. To provide appropriate contact points, the projectile either carries contact wires or is designed to open and emit the liquid upon impact.

Abstract: A fired rifle cartridge is resized in the cartridge neck area for reuse. A first die set is employed to compress the cartridge neck such that the inner surface of the neck fits a standard size bullet. A second die set is used to expand selected areas of the cartridge neck to snugly fit the firing chamber. The resultant ammunition round can be fired with a greater degree of accuracy than ammunition resized by prior art procedures, because the longitudinal axis of the cartridge neck coincides with the bore axis of the firearm.

Abstract: The spinning mine has all of its projectiles concentrated in one small ar It is launched from a spring-loaded threaded screw launcher and acquires angular momentum as it ascends into the air from the launcher to a pre-determined detonation altitude. As the mine spins, the detector assembly on board detects the presence and location of potential targets and sends appropriate indicative signals to a microprocessor, also on board. The microprocessor determines therefrom the location of the largest target or the largest cluster of targets in the environment and triggers the detonation of the mine such that the projectiles are jettisoned in a conical pattern toward the largest target or the largest cluster of targets for a more efficient destruction of the targets.

Abstract: A fragment-sealing bullet trap for rifle muzzle launched projectiles having a soft aluminum plug for decelerating and absorbing the softer components of rifle bullets, followed by a shock absorbing piston to mitigate the peak acceleration of the projectile due to bullet impact, in turn followed by a hardened steel anvil to safely capture any steel bullet components. Attached to the aft portion of the plug is an aluminum cap, containing a rubber gasket, which expands during bullet penetration, but rebounds due to its resiliency, tightly sealing off the bullet trap against the escape of bullet and plug fragments. The cap is designed to prevent the gasket from blowing out as a result of high bullet trap pressurization.

Abstract: A stator vane mounting platform is disclosed which provides internal cooling chambers which facilitates the flow of cooling air through the chambers and thus, the cooling of the stator assembly. Baffles define an upstream chamber and a downstream cooling chamber between adjacent stator vanes so as to maximize the airflow and, consequently, the cooling effects of this airflow. The internal cooling chambers are defined by a thick wall and a relatively thin wall, the thin wall being in direct contact with the hot gases passing through the stator assembly. Mounting lugs and flanges are directly attached to the thicker wall so as to mount the stator assembly to the turbine engine structure and to accommodate all of the mechanical stresses encountered during the turbine engine operation.

Abstract: A high performance shaped charge for piercing high strength steel has a symmetry of revolution about an axis; a priming system constituted by a punctiform initiating source for producing a detonation wave in a block of donor explosive, and a cavity positioned between the donor explosive and a receiver explosive, the cavity being shaped in such a way that the detonation wave from the receiver explosive which enters a charging explosive is planar and perpendicular to the axis of the charge.

Abstract: A fin stabilized ballistic projectile comprises a projectile body having a plurality of stabilizing fins and an ejectable projectile tip detachably attached to the front of the projectile body. An ejection mechanism is operatively disposed for ejecting the projectile tip. A sensor is disposed in the projectile tip for scanning a target area. A warhead is disposed at the front of the projectile body behind the projectile tip and includes a curved fragmentation plate for discharging fragments at a target, with the fragmentation plate being openly exposed when the projectile tip is ejected, and an explosive charge disposed behind the fragmentation plate.

Abstract: A saboted projectile for ensuring gas tight sealing of a threaded penetrator with its sabot having a tapping. This sealing device is formed of an elastomer element applied on the rear portion of the sabot and comprises a lip in resilient abutment on the penetrator and is obtained by molding over the sabot having an insert engaged therein.

Abstract: A shaped charge for missiles which are provided for defeating armored vehicles in such a manner that the flight path of the missile is beside, below or above the target. The warhead is ignited at an instant when the missile is either beside, below or above a weakly armored portion of the target. The shaped charge is characterized by a hollow body (liner), which is surrounded by an explosive charge. To compensate for the velocity of the missile, the explosive charge is designed such that the charge axis forms an angle with the axis of the inner counter of the hollow body (liner), and such that sections in planes normal to the axis of the inner liner contour have circular or elliptic cross sections. The liner may be designed in a way that the axes of the inner and the outer contours can be translated with respect to each other and/or inclined by a small angle toward each other. Also the cone angles of the inner and outer contours of the liner may be different.

Abstract: High-purity uranium can be effectively recovered from gadolinium-containing nuclear fuel scraps by dissolving the scraps in a mineral acid, extracting uranium from the resulting solution with a solvent, washing the organic phase with water or a dilute mineral acid, and counter-extraction with water or a dilute mineral acid. This invention also provides an efficient method of recovering high-purity gadolinium from the acidic washings coming from the above washing step and containing small amounts of radioactive elements (uranium, thorium and others) by adding an alkali, removing the precipitate thus formed, lowering the pH of filtrate to 2 or less, and adding an oxalic acid source to precipitate gadolinium oxalate.

Abstract: A grenade body, in particular for hand grenades, comprising a muti-part fragmentation body which forms a hollow body and which comprises metal particles (7) embedded in plastics material, and an outer casing of plastics material which encloses the fragmentation body, wherein the parts (1, 2) of the fragmentation body interengage positively at the connecting surfaces (6). The preferably substantially spherical metal particles (7) project with only a small distance beyond the connecting surface (6) when the fragmentation body is assembled. In the region of the conecting surfaces (6), the inner layer of particles is displaced relative to the outer layer of particles by approximately half a particle diameter (FIG. 5).

Abstract: An explosive small arms projectile is disclosed. Prior art projectiles of this kind include a lead core for increased mass which core is formed with a blind hole for receiving an explosive and the necessary detonating device.The projectile of the invention comprises a jacket (102) of a metal with a specific gravity in excess of 13, Tantalum or a Tantalum/Tungsten alloy being preferred. The entire interior of the jacket is left free for the explosive charge; the jacket (102) has increased mechanical, structural and tensile characteristics over prior art projectiles and the projectile has better rotational ballistic stability in use due to the redistribution of the mass thereof to the periphery.

Abstract: A projectile which is fireable in a spin-stabilized manner from a weapon barrel or launch tube through the action of the gas pressure generated by a propellant charge, and which projectile is guidable during flight. The projectile is equipped in the rearward region of its tail-end structure, and preferably behind the control surfaces, with a type of propulsion cage so as to, through the intermediary of the gas pressure generated by the propellant charge, faciliate a ballistic firing of the projectile from a weapon barrel or launch tube. The projectile is equipped with a sealing ring, which with a gliding frictional contact, coaxially encompasses an axially-limited region of the tail-end structure of the projectile.

Abstract: Projectiles for use in shells for shotguns and other smooth bore weapons are teardrop-shaped having a blunt hemispherical nose portion and an elongate tail portion tapering smoothly from a junction with the nose portion to a relatively sharp tip. The outer surface of the nose portion is provided with radiating curved grooves for imparting in-flight spin to the projectile so as to stabilize it in flight. The projectiles may be used in a shell case singly to provide a relatively large caliber slug or alternatively small caliber projectiles may be used in elongate stacks in a shell case to provide a form of buckshot.

Abstract: A mortar training device which includes full-size, simulated, propelling charges is disclosed. The device enables a trainee to subtract simulated charges, as required, to achieve a desired zone of reduced firing distance, following procedures similar to those used with standard service ammunition. The method is embodied in a sabot projectile having a sub-caliber flight projectile. The system provides zones of firing distance which are approximately one-tenth that of standard service ammunition.

Abstract: A fin-stabilized projectile which includes a propellant cage encompassing the projectile body, and with the cage consisting of a plurality of segments retained together through suitable fastening media, and which incorporates, at its leading end, an annular recess extending beyond the overall diameter of the propellant cage, through which there is initiated the spreading apart of the segments subsequent to the exit of the projectile from the weapon barrel.

Abstract: A sabot projectile comprising a projectile body and a sabot formed of a metal alloy secured at the projectile body. A plastic jacket is secured to the sabot. Mutually interengaging holding means are provided at the projectile body and at the sabot, and said holding means positively interengage free of play with one another for securing the sabot at the projectile body.

Abstract: Improvements in a multi-capability projectile having a heavy primary penetration element surrounded by a splintering and fragmenting secondary penetration element which extends forwardly of the primary penetration element to form a cavity having a bursting charge therein, the projectile having a nose portion forwardly of that cavity with an ignition charge therein. The rear of the secondary penetration element is stepped inwardly to form a smaller recess which receives and holds the rear end of the primary penetration element. A shoulder adjacent this smaller rearward portion can be formed in accordance with an improved method with an annular groove, according to which the portion of that shoulder radially inwardly of the groove is urged against the side of the primary penetration element to form a rimmed part which secures the same. The annular space surrounding the forward end of the primary penetration element can be filled with an incendiary charge, the bursting charge being located forwardly thereof.

Abstract: A projectile (1) containing particles of interference material is fired pneumatically from a launching tube (2). Compressed air, which is supplied to the launching tube and acts on the rear face of the projectile during firing, is conducted both to a loading chamber (19) wherein the air pressure is maintained even after the projectile has left the firing tube, and also via the loading chamber to an expansion chamber (20) in which, after a specific time-lag corresponding with a certain launch height on the trajectory of the projectile, an over-pressure builds up which causes the expansion of the chamber to be initiated with simultaneous expulsion of the interference material from the projectile. The compressed air may also be conducted to the chamber (10) in the projectile wherein the interference material is accommodated, tightly packed, in order to enhance the dispersion thereof.

Abstract: A shaped-charge for a non-rotating projectile whose structural components, .e., the conical liner, explosive, and container have asymmetries relative the projectile producing upon explosion controlled deflection of a penetrating jet which is effective on sloped armor surfaces.