Patent ID: 8813649

Claim:
A low foreign object damage weighted nose standard decoy flare comprising: a hollow cartridge case having a closed aft end and an open forward end for containing and launching a standard decoy flare; an ejectible flare pellet subassembly forwardly disposed within said cartridge case; a nose cup having a closed end, an open end, and at least one side wall attached to said closed end, said at least one side wall extending through said open forward end inside said cartridge case adjacent to said flare pellet subassembly creating an internal cavity of said nose cup intermediate to said closed end of said nose cup and a forward end of said flare pellet subassembly, said side wall surrounding said internal cavity; a metal powder disposed within the internal cavity for weighing down the forward end of the decoy flare, said forward end of said flare pellet subassembly adjacent to a surface of said metal powder; and an adhesive intermediate to said at least one side wall of said nose cup and said flare pellet subassembly affixing said nose cup to said forward end of flare pellet subassembly whereby heat from the burning of the flare pellet subassembly burns the side wall of the nose cup changing its aerodynamics such that the nose cup tumbles through the air upon burn out of the flare pellet subassembly spilling the metal powder.