Patent ID: 7481146
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: F41A,F41B,F42B

Abstract:
1. A device for disrupting improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the device comprising: a barrel; a firing pin; a firing pin mechanism; a projectile, which serves to penetrate and/or destroy at least part of the IED; and an accelerator, which, when the device is actuated, accelerates the projectile and propels it through the barrel, wherein the accelerator is designed as a cartridge filled with propellant, and the cartridge is stored in a magazine and contains an initiator for initiating the acceleration, wherein a primer at the base of the cartridge serves as the initiator and that initiation occurs when the primer is struck by the firing pin: and one or more compensating tubes, which are operated with water and compensate the recoil of the device upon initiation.