A short-range training practice round, for simulating a high energy type ammunition round, comprises a discarding-sabot containing a self-destruct subprojectile, e.g. of aluminum or steel, similar in external configuration to the heavy armor-piercing subprojectile simulated, and made up of a plurality, e.g. 3, of contiguous elongated mating segments held together during launch and subsequent flight by a heat-sensitive nose cap adapted to be heated by the airstream and disintegrate at a predetermined point in flight, allowing the segments to tumble in air, decelerate, and come to rest after a short flight. (Author)
Short-Range Discarding-Sabot Training Practice Round and Self-Destruct Subprojectile Therefor
1977
7 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
A History of Flight Safe Discarding Sabot Rounds
TIBKAT | 2022
|A History of Flight Safe Discarding Sabot Rounds
AIAA | 2022
|Self-destruct charge ordnance component of Agena D vehicle self-destruct system
Engineering Index Backfile | 1967
|