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US 4602553

METHOD OF AND AN ASSEMBLY FOR FIRING PROJECTILES WITH CONTROLLED GASIFICATION OF A LIQUID PROPELLANT

Assignee

RHEINMETALL INDUSTRIE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

Filed

Feb 10, 1975

Granted

Jul 29, 1986

Location

DUSSELDORF DE

Abstract

A projectile seated in a gun barrel is fired by vaporizing a liquid propellant in a loading chamber communicating with the gun barrel through a rising duct. A cluster of filling bodies occupies the entire cross-section of the duct and dips into the liquid propellant within the loading chamber, these bodies forming a multiplicity of passages in which the ignited liquid gasifies upon being driven by its own vapor pressure toward the gun barrel.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Imposed

Jan 29, 1982

Rescinded

Jan 30, 1985

Duration

3 years

Inventor

  • 1RAIMUND GERMERSHAUSEN

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