PROJECTILE
Assignee
THORN EMI ELECTRONICS LIMITED, A COMPANY OF GREAT BRITAIN
Filed
Nov 22, 1988
Granted
Sep 18, 1990
Location
ASHFORD EN GB
Abstract
A projectile has a nose portion and a body portion. A plurality of winged, fin-stabilized flechettes are releasably mounted in the body portion. Each flechette is mounted with its longitudinal axis at a pre-set pitch to a longitudinal axis of the projectile. In use, with the projectile moving on a projectile trajectory, each released flechette follows a respective trajectory parallel to and at a predetermined distance from the projectile trajectory. The predetermined distance for each flechette is determined by its pre-set pitch to the longitudinal axis of the projectile.
Source: Google Patents
35 USC §181 Secrecy Order
Imposed
Jun 8, 1989
Rescinded
Mar 7, 1990
Duration
9 months
Inventor
- 1MICHAEL C. PUTTOCK
Record Details
- Patent number
- US 4957046
- Application
- 07274374
- Aerospace match
- Yes
- Dataset source
- 35 USC §181 SO records
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