Antonio Paulic - Manassas VA, US Alex Fu - Centreville VA, US
Assignee:
Lockheed Martin Corporation - Bethesda MD
International Classification:
F42B 15/22
US Classification:
102399, 114 201, 102501
Abstract:
A water-entry projectile capable of supercavitation and spin-stabilization comprises a forward section having one or more forward stepped sections, each stepped section being symmetrical in rotation about an axis and having a radius at an aft end that is different from a radius of a front end of an adjacent rearwardly located stepped section; an aft section having an aft stepped section, the aft stepped section being symmetrical in rotation about the axis and having a maximum radius larger than a maximum radius of the forward section; and wherein the aft section is located substantially aft of a center of gravity of the projectile.
Underwater Gun Comprising A Turbine-Based Barrel Seal
Jyun-Horng Fu - Centreville VA, US Robert James Howard - Clifton VA, US Antonio Paulic - Arlington VA, US John W. Rapp - Manassas VA, US
Assignee:
Lockheed Martin Corporation - Bethesda MD
International Classification:
F41C 9/06
US Classification:
42 114, 89 1809, 89 181, 89 5, 89 31, 114316
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for sealing the barrel of an underwater gun between firings is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a turbine that is disposed at the outlet of the muzzle of the gun. The turbine draws in water and, in various embodiments, either (a) vaporizes it, forming a vapor barrier along the spin axis that keeps water out of the barrel, (b) expels it radially, thereby re-directing it so that it does not enter the barrel, or (c) generates water jets that prevent water from entering the barrel.
An anti-mine dart includes a body containing an explosive payload and having a flyer-plate port. The dart is operable responsive to the payload being detonated to propel through the flyer-plate port a flyer plate having sufficient energy to detonate an explosive material surrounding the dart. The darts may include a plurality of explosive payloads, flyer-plate ports and flyer plates. The darts may be formed in a stack arrangement within a missile such that the flyer-plate port of each dart is not aligned with the flyer-plate ports of any of the adjacent darts in the stack arrangement. The darts may contain a simplified safe-and-arm mechanism or no safe-and-arm mechanism at all.
Underwater Gun Comprising A Plate-Type Barrel Seal
Jyun-Horng Fu - Centreville VA, US Robert James Howard - Clifton VA, US John W. Rapp - Manassas VA, US Antonio Paulic - Arlington VA, US
Assignee:
Lockheed Martin Corporation - Bethesda MD
International Classification:
F41C 9/06
US Classification:
42 114, 89 1809, 89 181, 89 5, 89 31, 114316
Abstract:
An apparatus for sealing the barrel of an underwater gun between firings is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a magnetically-attractable water-impermeable disk. Via operation of a drive system, the disk is movable between a sealing position, wherein it prevents water from entering the barrel by moving into alignment with the first bore, and a firing position, wherein the first water-impermeable disk moves out of alignment with the first bore.
Underwater Gun Comprising A Passive Fluidic Barrel Seal
Jyun-Horng Fu - Centreville VA, US Robert James Howard - Clifton VA, US Antonio Paulic - Arlington VA, US John W. Rapp - Manassas VA, US
Assignee:
Lockheed Martin Corporation - Bethesda MD
International Classification:
F41C 9/06
US Classification:
42 114, 89 5, 89 31, 114316
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for sealing the barrel of an underwater gun between firings is disclosed. The apparatus clears the barrel and/or prevents water from entering the barrel based on pressure variations.
Antonio Paulic - Arlington VA, US Lance Hamilton Benedict - McLean VA, US
Assignee:
Lockheed Martin Corporation - Bethesda MD
International Classification:
F42C 19/00
US Classification:
102216, 102275, 102500, 102272, 89 113
Abstract:
Some embodiments of the invention provide a dart that contains an HE payload, two time-delay fuses, one providing a relatively longer delay and the other providing a relatively shorter delay and two triggering mechanisms for triggering the fuses. The first triggering mechanism, which triggers on contact with a mine lid, triggers the relatively shorter time-delay fuse. The second mechanism, which triggers on overburdening exposure to water, sand, or soil, triggers the relatively longer time-delay fuse.
Robert J. Howard - Clifton VA, US Antonio Paulic - Arlington VA, US John W. Rapp - Manassas VA, US
Assignee:
Lockheed Martin Corporation - Bethseda MD
International Classification:
H04B 1/59
US Classification:
367 5, 367 99, 367118, 367141
Abstract:
A ballistic-acoustic transducer system includes a processor and one or more acoustic sensors. The sensors are positioned in a body of water and are in communication with the processor. The system is configured such that acoustic energy generated by a non-explosive projectile as it impacts the water, enters the water, and sinks through the water, is sensed by the one or more acoustic sensors, and the processor is configured to process the acoustic energy sensed by the one or more acoustic sensors.
Jyun-Horng Fu - Centreville VA, US Lance Hamilton Benedict - McLean VA, US Antonio Paulic - Arlington VA, US Robert M. Krass - Ashburn VA, US
Assignee:
Lockheed Martin Corporation - Bethesda MD
International Classification:
F42B 15/22
US Classification:
102399, 114 201
Abstract:
A surface ship, deck-launched anti-torpedo projectile is disclosed. The projectile has a blunt-end nose to create a cavitating running mode. The nose has a gradual, stepped, right-circular cylindrical or conic geometry. In some embodiments, the projectile includes a plurality of tail fins that are dimensioned and arranged to be within the generalized elliptical cavity that shrouds the projectile in the cavitating running mode.
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