Fuze safety device for a self-guiding submunition

摘要

For a fuzing device of a self-guiding submunition which can be ejected from a carrier missile it is intended to reduce the space requirement by means of mechanical and pyrotechnic locking elements, and it is nevertheless intended that the arming of the fuzing device take place without disturbance independently of the flight-specific and firing-specific characteristics of the carrier missile, and it is furthermore intended that premature arming, for example during handling, be prevented. The detonator carrier 1 is constructed as a slide 2, which can be moved in the longitudinal direction 19 for arming, and contains a locking element 3 which engages directly on the slide 2 and can be armed pyrotechnically, as well as two locking devices 4, 5 which can be armed mechanically. The locking device 4 holds the slide 2 carrying the detonator 45 in the safety position 7, in which it can be handled safely, before the installation of the fuzing device 8 in the carrier missile 9. Said locking device 4 is constructed as a rod 25 and, after installation, is connected to a wall 6 of the carrier missile 9 in such a manner that it can be pulled out of the fuze safety device 8 during the process of disengaging the wall 6. The locking device 5 can be armed only in the necessary sequence after separation of the wall 6 and before arming of the locking device 3 as a result of the ejection pulse of the fuze safety device 8 on ejection of the submunition, which is not shown, from the carrier missile 9. <IMAGE>