Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Munition and munition assembly
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Application No.: US17415938Application Date: 2019-12-13
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Publication No.: US11859953B2Publication Date: 2024-01-02
- Inventor: Andrew Carr , Timothy Keith Girling , Murray Thomson
- Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plc
- Applicant Address: GB London
- Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
- Current Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
- Current Assignee Address: GB London
- Agency: Finch & Maloney PLLC
- Priority: EP 275186 2018.12.19 GB 20705 2018.12.19 GB 12696 2019.09.04
- International Application: PCT/GB2019/053533 2019.12.13
- International Announcement: WO2020/128437A 2020.06.25
- Date entered country: 2021-06-18
- Main IPC: F42B10/48
- IPC: F42B10/48 ; F42B10/54 ; F42B10/56 ; F42B21/00 ; F42C1/00 ; F42C3/00 ; F42C5/00 ; F42C9/00 ; F42C13/06 ; F42C13/08

Abstract:
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a munition assembly, arranged to be launched from a gun, the assembly comprising: a carrier for a submunition, the carrier comprising a cavity in which the submunition is located; and a submunition, carried by the carrier in the cavity, the submunition arranged to be controllably expelled from the carrier; the submunition comprising: a submunition explosive charge; and a submunition fuze, wherein: the munition assembly is adapted to be launched, into the air, from a gun barrel, where the submunition is then arranged to be controllably expelled from the carrier and enter a body of water; and the submunition fuze is adapted to trigger the submunition explosive charge under water.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220090893A1 A MUNITION AND MUNITION ASSEMBLY Public/Granted day:2022-03-24
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