Artillery Safety and Arming Device

Abstract

The report describes a program initiated to design and develop a safety and arming device for general artillery use incorporating dashpot functions to delay arming and self-destruction. The concept involved the replacement of the gear driven runaway escapement of the current M125A1 booster with a simpler mechanism using a sharp edge orifice dashpot for arming delay and a liquid annular orifice dashpot for self-dsestruct to clean up dud rounds.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0771980

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arming Devices
  • Drop Tests
  • Engineering
  • Explosive Charges
  • Explosive Trains
  • Explosives
  • Fabrication
  • Firing Pins
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fuzes (Ordnance)
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Production
  • Projectiles
  • Rdx
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering