Patent ID: 9052173
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: F42B

Abstract:
1. A launch package adapted to be gun launched along a launch axis, the launch package comprising: a sabot having a plurality of sabot petals and a longitudinal sabot axis parallel to or coaxial with the launch axis; an elongated sub-projectile extending longitudinally through said sabot; wherein each sabot petal is formed from a plurality of wedges, each wedge having an inner arcuate surface proximate the sub-projectile, an outer arcuate surface distal the sub-projectile, and two planar surfaces each extending parallel to the longitudinal sabot axis and radially from the inner arcuate surface to the outer arcuate surface, each wedge formed from a plurality of parallel, stacked flat sheets of composite material adhered together, wherein each of said two planar surfaces of each said wedge is coplanar with a meridional plane defined by a radial axis of the sabot and the launch axis such that each wedge is bounded between two meridional planes, and wherein for each wedge every sheet thereof includes a surface that is coplanar with a plane that intersects both meridional planes thereof.