Abstract: An inertial mechanical delay mechanism including: a first member rotatable about a first axis in a first direction. The first member having a first center of mass offset from a line parallel to a direction of acceleration and perpendicular from the first axis. A first elastic material exerts a first biasing force to the first member to bias the first member in a second direction. A second member is rotatable about a second axis in a third direction. The second member rotatable in a third direction by at least indirect interaction with the first member when the first member rotates a first angle in the first direction. A second elastic material exerts a second biasing force to the second member to bias the second member in a fourth direction. The first member is configured to rotate the first angle when the acceleration is greater than a predetermined magnitude and duration.

Abstract: A kit includes a deterrent device, a grip activation system, and a housing supporting the grip activation system. The housing positions the grip activation system so that a sensing space of the grip activation system extends at least partly adjacent to a trigger guard of the deterrent device. The grip activation system includes an emitter configured to emit first electromagnetic radiation having a first wavelength; a detector configured to detect second electromagnetic radiation having the first wavelength; and a controller. The controller determines, based at least in part on the second electromagnetic radiation, that an object is present in the sensing space; and provides an activation signal to an activatable system in response to determining that the object is present in the sensing space. The activatable system can include a light source. Some examples include a housing, a grip activation system, and an activatable system.

Abstract: A dual image offsetting apparatus for producing a first offset image pathway and a discrete, second offset image pathway and presenting the offset image pathways to a user or an optic, including at least some of a first reflective surface, a second reflective surface, a third reflective surface, and a fourth reflective surface, wherein the reflective surfaces are attached or coupled so as to provide the first offset image pathway and the second offset image pathway offset from a direct image pathway between a target object and the user or the optic.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a muzzle-end adapter for bore sighting of large caliber guns. The muzzle-end adapter includes a main operating shaft extending along a first longitudinal axis. The muzzle-end adapter includes a disk. Further, the muzzle-end adapter includes a main body. The main body encapsulates the main operating shaft. Furthermore, the muzzle-end adapter includes a first-section and a second-section. The second-section includes a plurality of sets of centering fingers. The second-section encapsulates the disk. Moreover, the muzzle-end adapter includes a plurality of conical disks. The plurality of conical disks includes a first conical disk and a second conical disk. The first conical disk is positioned at a second end of the second-section. The second conical disk is positioned at a first end of the second-section. Also, rectilinear motion of the second-section over the plurality of conical disks radially expands centering fingers of the plurality of sets of centering fingers.

Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide a personal tactical system configured to be worn by an individual for protection against threats. In one implementation, the personal tactical system includes one or more internal components disposed in an interior formed by an outer layer and an inner layer. The internal components include a flexible body armor, a ballistic plate, a ballistic frame, and/or a ballistic plate cover. The ballistic frame further includes an electrical system coupled to the frame body, the electrical system including one or more ports in communication with at least one of electrical or communication lines.

Abstract: There is provided a reflector sight for a firearm. The sight comprises a base, a housing arranged on the base together defining an inner chamber, and a light source, wherein the base comprises a bridge defining a tunnel therethrough, and wherein the light source is arranged with respect to the base to emit light through the tunnel and into the chamber.

Abstract: A ballistic garage door assembly and a kit for converting a standard garage door uses sheets of ballistic material secured to the exterior shell of the standard garage door panels along with inserts at the joints between adjacent garage door panels. Joint inserts applied to the horizontal ends of the garage door panels provide bullet resistant characteristics at the joints. Aluminum sheets with multiple plies of ballistic material between the aluminum sheets are applied to the entire garage door shell. Insulated foam is place on the innermost aluminum sheet to provide additional ballistic performance for the converted garage door. Increased levels of ballistic protection will utilize thicker aluminum panels and an additional external ballistic bumper to increase ballistic performance of the joints between the garage door panels. The outward aesthetic appearance of the garage door does not change appreciably, although a door lift with greater horsepower may be required.

Abstract: A hypersonic missile defense system for protecting a target from a hypersonic weapon, wherein the system includes a plurality of globule spheres in a defensive formation between the target and the hypersonic weapon. The globule sphere may include a proximity fuse; a plurality of fission spheres; a capacitor capsule; and a membrane separating a first formation material from a second formation material, both contained within the globule sphere.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, devices, and techniques that can be implemented at a gun, such as an electromechanical gun. The gun may include a barrel located within a slide and a cylindrical spring enveloping the barrel. The barrel may be configured to act as a guide rod for the cylindrical spring, and the cylindrical spring may be configured to bias the slide in a forward battery position. The gun may include an electronic component such as an energy store, a processor, or a circuit board, located under the barrel and forward of the trigger when the gun is in an upright position. The gun may include a physical transmission medium that electronically couples the electronic component with an additional electronic component located rearward of the trigger, and the physical transmission medium may be at least partially encapsulated by a trigger guard.

Abstract: A muzzle brake having a tuner and allowing for micro-adjustments to the weight of the barrel of a firearm. Upon being fired, the weighted the barrel mitigates the effect on aiming by disruptive frequencies reverberating through the firearm. The muzzle brake can incorporate a muzzle brake and be positioned after the muzzle brake segment such that the harmonics of the muzzle brake segment can also be affected by the muzzle brake. Use of the tuner on a firearm can increase overall accuracy and affect the groupings of shots on target when compared to use of a firearm without a muzzle brake.

Abstract: An actuator has a housing (14), a pyrotechnic charge (17) and a piston (11) which transitions into a pin (12) which in the initial state projects out of the housing (14) and upon ignition of the pyrotechnic charge (17) is retracted at least partially into the housing (14). According to the invention, the piston-pin combination consists of a main body (10) which is made of plastic and has a reinforcing element (13) in the region of the pin (12). The reinforcing element (13) has the shape of a sleeve or tube and surrounds the pin (12). It is form-fittingly connected to the pin (12), for example by the sleeve-like or tubular reinforcing element (13) having a shape (22) for reducing the inner cross-section.

Abstract: A wipe-cutting tool integrated into a firearm or firearm accessory, or component thereof, which can be replaced in the field. The muzzle accessories may include a suppressor, a brake, a compensator or a flash suppressor. The components may include an endcap, the end of an accessory, a muzzle or a baffle. Cutting blades are integrated into the firearm or muzzle accessory and may be integrally formed with the suppressor or compensator tube as well as with a muzzle end cap attached to the tube. When pressed into a substrate of material suitable to form a wipe the cutting blade separates a wipe from the substrate which can be readily inserted into the suppressor or compensator at the muzzle end.

Abstract: A flexible cylindrical fabric rifle cover for mitigating heat mirage, including an inner textile tube having a major axis, an outer textile tube positioned around the inner textile tube and sharing the major axis, and a plurality of middle textile tubes sandwiched between the inner and outer tubes and sharing the major axis. A plurality of thread guides are connected to the outer tube. A poly-para-phenylene terephthalamide thread runs through the thread guides and has a first end connected to the outer tube and a second end connected to a rotary reel affixed to the outer tube. The outer tube is an aramid ripstop fabric, the inner tube is an amorphous silica cloth, and the respective middle tubes are selected from the group consisting of aluminized silica fabric, basalt fiber fabric, silicone coated aluminized fiberglass fabric, poly-para-phenylene terephthalamide fabric, and aramid ripstop fabric.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a capture device enabling capture of a target to be captured without direction contact with the target to be captured. A capture device for capturing a target with a wire includes: a casing that holds a cartridge detachably; and a launch unit that launches a wire stored in the cartridge, the wire having an end portion provided with a weight and another end portion provided with a weight, in which the launch unit launches the wire with a magnetic field generated by a flow of current through a coil.

Abstract: The invention relates to a bullet, which comprises a bullet body and a bullet tip, which bullet body of the bullet is a solid body bullet body and made of lead-free metal, advantageously of copper, most advantageously extremely pure copper, which bullet tip of the bullet is made of polymer material, advantageously of POM (polyoxymethylene). The bullet body of the bullet comprises an inner central opening with inner grooves located radially spaced apart at the circumference of the inner central opening. The bullet tip of the bullet comprises a tip end part, tip end grooves and a tip end central bridge, and the bullet tip is located in the inner central opening of the bullet body such, that the tip end part of the bullet tip is outside the bullet body.

Abstract: An anti-ballistic barrier system with a plurality of support mounts and an anti-ballistic shield configured to extend across a targeted area. The plurality of support mounts is configured to couple the shield to a support structure adjacent the targeted area. A plurality of extendable connectors extends between the anti-ballistic shield and the plurality of support mounts. A polyester shield cover may extend over the anti-ballistic shield. The plurality of extendable connectors may be positioned at regular intervals around a perimeter of the shield and may be formed of a material having an elongation percentage property of at least 100%. The anti-ballistic shield may be movable between a retracted position in which a majority of the targeted area is exposed and an extended position in which the anti-ballistic shield extends across a majority of the targeted area.

Abstract: Methods involve using a guided munition (e.g., a mortar round or a grenade) that utilizes deployable flow effectors, activatable flow effectors and/or active flow control devices to extend the range and enhance the precision of traditional unguided munitions without increasing the charge needed for launch. Sensors such as accelerometers, magnetometers, IR sensors, rate gyros, and motor controller sensors feed signals into a controller which then actuates or deploys the flow effectors/flow control devices to achieve the enhanced characteristics.

Abstract: A boresighting system may include a laser boresight device and a parallax mitigation device. The laser boresight device may include a casing for loading into a chamber of a firearm in place of a bolt carrier group, where the casing accepts a laser device for generating a laser beam within an interior cavity of the casing. The parallax mitigation device may include a housing for securing to an optical sight and a central position indicator providing a visual indication of a central position of the optical sight. Boresighting may be provided by adjusting an eye position to view a laser spot on a target associated with the laser beam at the central position of the optical sight based on the central position indicator and adjusting the optical sight to overlap an alignment reference provided by the optical sight with the laser spot at the central position of the optical sight.

Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations an ammunition cartridge includes a cartridge casing having a longitudinal center axis, a powder pocket positioned adjacent to the cartridge casing, a piston bore positioned adjacent to the powder pocket, a piston in the piston bore, and a payload bay positioned adjacent to the payload bay, wherein the piston is not coupled to the cartridge, wherein the piston is in contact with the payload bay wherein a diameter of the powder pocket is less than an inside diameter of the cartridge casing to provide a reduced velocity to the payload.

Abstract: A method for making an improved projectile 360, 460 by defining a discontinuity, groove or trough in a distal ogive section of the projectile to provide an external ballistic effect uniforming surface feature (e.g., nose ring groove 369, 469) which makes an unsupported gap in the ogive profile that beneficially affects the flow of air over the front half of the ogive. The improved bullet's external surface discontinuity feature (369 or 469) creates effects in the flowfield that dominate any dynamic effects from bullet-to-bullet manufacturing inconsistency and resultant differences in dynamic behavior.