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7614347 Solid-fuel-combustion fire-insulation interface with adjacent container-wall  
A solid-fuel rocket assembly including an elongate fuel container having a long axis, and an inner surface spaced outwardly from, and generally circumsurrounding, that axis, and a continuous,...
7578238 Base bleed boat tail converter for projectile  
A projectile may be used in a boat tail or base bleed configuration. The projectile includes a warhead casing having a nose end and a base end; a payload disposed in the warhead casing; a motor...
7484353 Rocket motor case using plank sections and methods of manufacturing  
A rocket motor case includes a plurality of plank sections which provide a structural key for locking metal and/or composite end enclosures in place as part of the motor case. The plank sections...
7347146 Supercavitating projectile with propulsion and ventilation jet  
A supercavitating projectile is disclosed and includes a combustion chamber, a forward-directed jet nozzle and a comparatively larger gas duct/rear-directed jet nozzle. The combustion chamber is...
7282634 Vapor explosion weapon  
The apparatus of the present invention utilizes the heat energy of a weapon propulsion system to produce a vapor explosion. It includes an outer shell with a nozzle port and a body being made from...
7137588 Ballistic target defense system and methods  
A method for ballistic target defense including identifying a launched ballistic target having a target launch point, a target launch direction, a target speed, and a target trajectory; launching a...
7117797 Pyrotechnic charge structure  
A pyrotechnic charge structure, in particular for use as propellant in a rocket motor, is disclosed. The charge structure has a predetermined longitudinal extension and cross sectional area adapted...
7067732 Apparatus for utilizing waste heat from weapon propulsion system to produce vapor explosion  
The apparatus of the present invention uses waste heat generated by a weapon propulsion system to melt and ultimately superheat metal. Upon termination of the weapon mission, the apparatus explodes...
7051659 Projectile structure  
A scramjet has a cowl, a center structure, and a plurality of wide pylons connecting the cowl to the center structure, with scramjet engines positioned between adjacent pylons. Leading surfaces of...
6745696 Armor piercing projectile  
A projectile ( 100 ) for piercing armor including a cruise propellant ( 116 ) for maintaining a cruise velocity of the projectile. The projectile ( 100 ) also includes an acceleration rocket motor...
6725664 Shut-off system for an orifice of a duct, particularly for an orifice of an air inlet passage that allows air into the combustion chamber of a ramjet  
A shut-off system for an orifice of a duct, particularly for an orifice of an air inlet passage that allows air into the combustion chamber of a ramjet, includes a shutter for shutting off the...
6718883 Device for neutralizing a payload  
A neutralization device for a payload carried by a vector, such as a rocket. This device incorporates at least one explosively-formed charge, where such charge is made integral with the vector by a...
6672218 Self-propelling projectile having a penetrator core  
A self-propelling projectile allowing restricted local target effects comprises a penetrator core, a charge for at least partially fragmenting the core at a target, and autonomous ignition device...
6666144 Warhead decoupling bearing  
The invention comprises an improved precision rocket motor and warhead system by increasing the spin rate of the rocket motor. The system comprises an outer housing segment attached to the end of a...
6598535 Collapsible support frame for kinetic energy penetrator  
The Collapsible Support Frame for Kinetic Energy Penetrator supports a long-rod kinetic energy penetrator inside a kinetic energy missile air frame in handling and flight environments but, upon...
6578491 Externally accessible thermal ground plane for tactical missiles  
A tactical missile includes a heat pipe connecting heat sources with heat sinks within the missile. The system includes a removable external heat dissipation device that connects to the heat pipe...
6571715 Boot mechanism for complex projectile base survival  
A projectile ( 10 ) with extensible fins ( 24 ) is designed to be lightweight by removing material unnecessary to structural strength and filling the resulting voids with a non-metallic filler...
6568330 Modular missile and method of assembly  
A modular missile assembly includes a pair of modules which are separately transported and handled until just prior to firing, when they are coupled together. A forward payload-carrying module...
6536350 Stagnation pressure activated fuel release mechanism for hypersonic projectiles  
A propulsion-assisted projectile has a body, a cowl forming a combustion section and a nozzle section. The body has a fuel reservoir within a central portion of the body, and a fuel activation...
6494140 Modular rocket boosted penetrating warhead  
A modular boosted penetrator (BPEN) is disclosed that includes a penetrating warhead in tandem with a booster motor. The modular BPEN can also include suitable guidance and control systems. The...
6484641 Cruise missile downed airman decoy  
A cruise missile, such as the Tomahawk cruise missile, is adapted to deploy decoys in an area as the missile progresses along its preprogrammed course. Each decoy is shaped to be compatible with...
6460807 Missile components made of fiber-reinforced ceramics  
The missile comprises a nose, fixed fins or movable fins, gas rudders, propelling nozzles and blast pipe inserts, combustion chamber liners, tail cone, grid fins, fluid elements and radome or...
6421999 Modular solid-fuel rocket charges with rigid support casings  
A modular solid-fuel rocket propellent charge has a combustion-chamber wall, a plurality of separate elements including frozen fuel or oxidizer, and respective rigid casings completely surrounding...
6405653 Supercavitating underwater projectile  
A supercavitating underwater projectile adapted to be fired from a gun or the like, comprising a front end or nose portion and a rear end portion. An auxiliary rocket motor is disposed within the...
6357357 Propulsion system  
A propellant burning system and method useful in a rocket motor or projectile firing device burns a continuous main propellant grain of relatively soft propellant material selected from uncatalyzed...
6354220 Underwater explosive device  
An underwater explosive device, comprising a first container containing an explosive suitable for underwater use, and a second container surrounding the first container and containing oxygen gas...
6352030 Gas generating eject motor  
A gas generating eject motor includes a case containing an ignitable low temperature gas generant material that does not produce toxic gases upon the combustion thereof. The gas generant material...
6332592 Method for velocity precision pointing in spin-stabilized spacecraft or rockets  
A method of velocity precision pointing of spin-stabilized spacecraft or rockets is disclosed. This method involves softening the ignition transient of the ramp up phase of thrust, which may be...
6279482 Countermeasure apparatus for deploying interceptor elements from a spin stabilized rocket  
There is provided a countermeasure defense system against hostile missiles by employing non-explosive intercepting ("NEI") elements 14 deployed by the spin stabilized rocket 10. The NEI are carried...
6276277 Rocket-boosted guided hard target penetrator  
A target-penetrating aerial bomb includes a penetrator of hard steel or similar material that contains an explosive charge. A rocket motor is formed as an annular chamber and surrounds the...
6272997 Device for locating a projectile in a barrel  
A retaining clip for the retention of a fin-stabilised projectile in a desired position in a barrel at the rear breech end of a launcher, the clip comprising a generally cylindrical body portion...
6227096 Universal warhead adapter, and missile and method incorporating same  
A universal warhead adapter comprises a tubular sleeve configured to contain any of various warheads of different configurations, and an aft bulkhead designed to replicate the aft end of a standard...
6158349 Gas generator for a projectile  
A gas generator adapted to be disposed in a rear part of a projectile for increasing the flight range thereof, includes a housing defining a combustion chamber and having a bottom and a...
6125763 Integral solid booster and hybrid thrust sustaining system and projectile incorporating the same  
A rocket according to the invention includes a motor having a fuel chamber and an oxidizer tank, a nose portion provided forward of the motor, and a nozzle surrounded by fins provided aft of the...
6058846 Rocket and ramjet powered hypersonic stealth missile having alterable radar cross section  
A missile adapted for flight at hypersonic velocities includes an engine operable in rocket and ramjet modes of operation, the engine having an inlet opening, a fuel combustion chamber in the...
6036144 Mass producible launch system  
The disclosed launch systems are formed from mass producible elements that integrate propulsion, pneumatics and structural systems. In one embodiment, a launch system (10) includes multiple stages...
6012393 Asymmetric penetration warhead  
A penetration warhead of a positively position-controlled roll-stabilized missile. The warhead has a main axis and includes a nose section which is asymmetric with respect to the main axis of the...
5965836 Method and devices for propulsion  
A method provides for shooting a missile-rocket. The missile-rocket has two movable parts and a propellant. The propellant is disposed between the one movable part and the first end of the other...
5886289 Long range artillery shell  
A long range artillery shell (1) comprising rocket propellant material (10), a rocket motor nozzle (14) and base bleed propellant material (12). Ignition of the rocket propellant material (10) is...
5853143 Airbreathing propulsion assisted flight vehicle  
The flight vehicle includes an elongated central body having a central axis defined therein and a circumference. A plurality of elongated portions are positioned about the central body. A plurality...
5760330 Method and apparatus for conveying a large-calibre payload over an operational terrain  
A delivery apparatus (11) for full-calibre submunitions or the like payloads (12) which are coaxially stacked in its load space (19) results in a system which operates in a fault-free manner when,...
5708229 Gun launch rocket propellant support filler  
A gun launched rocket motor is provided with a filler material to fill all f the free volume in the rocket with a void-free incompressible "filler". The described filler material is selected from a...
5677508 Missile having non-cylindrical propulsion section  
A missile has a non-cylindrical fuselage over at least a portion of its length, with a non-cylindrical propulsion system contained within the non-cylindrical portion of the fuselage. The fuselage...
5661254 System for protecting a target from missiles  
Described is a system (10) for protecting a target such as an armoured vehicle, a bunker or the like from missiles. The protective system (10) has a launching container (12) with at least one...
5596166 Penetrating vehicle with rocket motor  
A penetrating vehicle having a rocket motor includes an elongated projectile body with a forward section for holding a payload and a rearward section for housing the rocket motor. The vehicle...
5579635 Distributed erosion region rocket motor nozzle  
A rocket motor nozzle has a nozzle core that defines a nozzle passage through which combustion products travel during flight. The erosive forces created by the combustion products are...
5565649 Projectile, in particular a non-lethal bullet  
The projectile, in particular a bullet, comprises a body (1) comprising a receiving cavity (6) containing a product (8) which is active on the organism of a live target, and means for releasing...
5544586 Solid fuel ramjet tubular projectile  
A solid fuel ramjet tubular projectile has a generally tubular body fabried of dense material or suitable hardened material having a bore formed therethrough and having first and second ends. A...
5513571 Airbreathing propulsion assisted gun-launched projectiles  
An air-breathing, propulsion-assisted projectile designed to be rocket or gun launched and capable of accelerating to hypersonic velocities includes a body having an encompassing cowl, an air...
5507231 Solid fuel launch vehicle destruction system and method  
A system and method for shattering a launch vehicle into relatively small pieces are described. The launch vehicle includes at least one solid fuel rocket motor having a propellant disposed about a...
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