How do you aim a mortar

In addition, ACERM features a new warhead with more high-density fragments and less explosive, and this has a significantly greater effect that the old version. Previously, programming a guided mortar round with the target coordinates required some hefty equipment. At two pounds, it is small enough to slip in a cargo pocket and has an touchscreen Android interface.

That is an important feature when you want to reduce the chances of mortar bombs being sent to the wrong address in the thick of the fight. GPS guidance is only half the story. This is a miniature laser sensor that allows the mortar bomb to act like a laser-guided missile that hits wherever an illuminated laser spot is directed.

The accuracy is better than one meter, and it can even hit moving targets. The "Low-Cost" part is important. The mortar team may not be able to see a target six miles or more away, let alone mark it with a laser designator, but the ACERM project aims to give them some help. Some of the live fire tests will employ Skylark I-LE , a small hand-launched drone developed by Israeli company Elbit. Like the US RQB Raven it resembles, the Skylark carries a video camera and thermal imaging, but it also has an extra feature, a miniature laser for target marking.

Marine Corps. The program includes a variety of live-fire tests through the next year, and aims to reach the Pentagon's Technology Readiness of 6: "prototype demonstration in a relevant environment. Development may not stop there. This should be able to achieve ranges somewhere out beyond 25 miles. Here, several rounds are fired at the same target along slightly different trajectories, so even though they are fired one after the other, they all arrive at the same moment.

This blind bore is located on the longitudinal axis 16 of the projectile body. A blank cartridge 17 is inserted into the blind bore The rear end of the piston 13 facing the base piece 11 has an enlarged diameter with an axial annular surface Kopfseitig greift der Rastbolzen 20 in eine entsprechende Rastnute oder Rastkerbe 25 in der Innenwand 26 des Hohlzylinders 7 ein.

At the end facing away from the base piece 11, the piston 13 is provided with a radial blind bore In this blind bore 19, a locking pin 20 is inserted, the bottom surface 21 of which has an opening 22 into which a spring 23 engages, which is supported on the bottom 24 of the blind bore On the head side, the locking pin 20 engages in a corresponding locking groove or notch 25 in the inner wall 26 of the hollow cylinder 7. An dem Sicherungsstift 28 befindet sich zum hinteren Ende der Auswurfeinrichtung 6 ein Zugring A substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis 16 of the cross bore 27 in the locking pin 20 receives a locking pin 28 which is supported in a corresponding bore 29 in the piston A pull ring 30 is located on the locking pin 28 toward the rear end of the ejection device 6.

Die axiale Bewegung des Rastbolzens 20 in der Sackbohrung 19 ist durch einen Stift 31 begrenzt, der fest im Bolzen 13 eingesetzt ist und in eine Randausnehmung 32 des Rastbolzens 20 eingreift. The axial movement of the locking pin 20 in the blind bore 19 is limited by a pin 31 which is firmly inserted in the pin 13 and engages in an edge recess 32 of the locking pin The hollow cylinder 7 has gas discharge openings 33 in its front region, which are located at the end of the acceleration path of the piston 13 during a movement in the direction of the arrow Because of these gas discharge openings 33, the piston 13 is without pressure when the ejection device 6 is removed from the mortar projectile 1.

The hollow cylinder 7 is provided with a reduced diameter in the region of the projectile end, as a result of which an axial annular surface 35 forms on the hollow cylinder 7, which faces the annular surface 18 of the piston. These two ring surfaces 18 and 35 form an end stop when the piston 13 moves within the hollow cylinder 7 in the direction of the arrow Vor der Sackbohrung 19 ist in dem Kolben 13 eine weitere radiale Sackbohrung 36 vorgesehen.

A further radial blind bore 36 is provided in the piston 13 in front of the blind bore The shot simulation with the mortar projectile takes place in that the mortar projectile 1 is inserted into a weapon barrel not shown here of a mortar from the weapon barrel mouth.

Due to the falling energy of the mortar projectile 1 when it strikes the bottom of the mortar tube, the piston 13 is now struck against the fixed firing pin 12 in the bottom part 11 of the ejection device 6, as a result of which the blank cartridge 17 stored in the piston 13 is ignited. Die dabei nun freigesetzten Pulvertreibgase treiben den Kolben 13 mit hoher Geschwindigkeit gegen seinen Anschlag 18 und 35 im Hohlzylinder 7. The now released powder propellant gases drive the piston 13 at high speed against its stop 18 and 35 in the hollow cylinder 7.

The piston 13 is consequently driven out of the rear end of the projectile and pushes off the base of the weapon barrel in the mortar and throws the mortar projectile 1 together with the ejection device 6 from the barrel of the mortar.

The range of the mortar projectile 1 thrown out in this way is only a few meters after leaving the weapon barrel, so that this device is suitable for carrying out a simulation of mortars and mortar projectiles in a hall or in very small spaces. Durch den Rastbolzen 20 wird der Kolben 13 in seiner Lager- bzw. The piston 13 is held in its storage or transport position according to FIG. Only after pulling out the locking pin 28 via the ring 30 is it possible to move the locking pin 20 within the blind bore 19 against the action of the spring The energy released when the blank cartridge 17 is ignited is sufficient to push the locking pin 20 out of the locking notch 25 against the stop pin 31 when the piston 13 moves in the direction of the arrow Ejector device for shell launcher or mortar projectiles for the simulation of a shot, having a propellant charge inserted in a separate chamber in the projectile body, characterized in that there is provided a ram 13 in the one end side 14 of which there is made the chamber 15 , constructed as a blind bore, for the propellant charge 17 , along the longitudinal axis 16 of the ram, and the ram 13 is arranged in a hollow cylinder 7 which can be inserted in the projectile body 3 and whereof the end face 10 facing the front part 2 of the projectile 1 is closed by a base part 11 axially spaced with respect to the chamber 15 and having a striking pin 12 , the ram 13 being held in position in the hollow cylinder 7 by a spring-loaded latching pin 20 which engages in a latching notch, latching groove or latching bore 25 in the cylinder inner wall 26 and is secured by a securing pin 28 supported in the ram Ejector device according to Claim 1, characterized in that the hollow cylinder 7 can be inserted in a bore 5 in the tail part 3 of the projectile.

Ejector device according to Claim 1, characterized in that a blank cartridge 17 is inserted in the chamber Ejector device according to Claim 1, characterized in that propellant charge of differing energy can be inserted in the chamber 15 and associated therewith is a detonating cap acted upon by the striking pin Ejector device according to Claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the cylinder wall 7 is provided with gas outlet openings Ejector device according to Claim 1, characterized in that the latching pin 20 is inserted in a radially running blind bore 19 in the ram 13 and a pressure spring 22 is supported on the base 24 of the blind bore 19 , the latching pin 20 being movable to an axially limited extent as a result of a pin 31 in the ram Ejector device according to Claim 1, characterized in that the ram 13 has at its end facing the base part 11 a widened diameter with an annular face 18 , while the hollow cylinder 7 has at the open end side remote from the base part 11 a reduced diameter with an annular face 35 facing the annular face 18 of the ram 13 , and both annular faces 18, 35 are axially spaced from one another and form a limit stop for the ram movement.

Ejecting device for mortar grenade launches, e. USA en. EPB1 en. JPHA en. KRB1 en. Filler Titanium tetrachloride Terminal effect Extraordinary fast generation of cold smoke. Terminal effect Luminosity: cd Illumination duration: 38 sec.

Terminal effect Illumination duration: 40 sec. BIPOD The newly designed asymmetrical bipod carries the shock absorber, the barrel clamp and the elevating, traverse and cross levelling gear. Smoke duration: sec. Main Menu. Weapon Position Data. Weapon Aiming Data. Integrated Mapping.