F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons – 41 – A
Patent
F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons
41
A
F41A 1/10 (2006.01) F41F 3/045 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2677562
The present invention relates to a countermass weapon comprising a launching tube open or openable in both ends, the launching tube housing a launchable unit such as a rocket, a projectile, a shell or the like, a countermass, a pressure chamber, a propellant charge that upon firing and combustion of the charge in cooperation with the pressure chamber and the countermass accelerates the launchable unit forwards in the tube at the same time as the countermass accelerates backwards in the tube, and a firing and supporting unit connected to the outside of the launching tube. The object of the invention is to obtain a weapon that is less complicated to manufacture and thus less expensive and that at the same time avoids possible recoil problems for the gunner and makes the weapon safer for the gunner and other persons involved. The object of the invention is obtained by a countermass weapon characterized in that the countermass is designed such that a forward directed recoil is obtained and that the launching tube is designed to be disengageable from the firing and supporting unit during the forward directed recoil.
Fetherstonhaugh & Co.
Saab Ab
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