Patent ID: 7347147

Claim:
A braking arrangement comprising a braking element which is radially deployable from a stowage space ( 14 ) located in the fuse region of an ogive of a correctable-trajectory artillery projectile ( 12 ) below a hood which is adapted to be blown off from said projectile, said braking element extending peripherally unitarily and gaplessly in a circumferential direction upon deployment from said stowage space ( 14 ), said braking element being in the form of a textile screen ( 16 ) comprised of a cloth ( 33 ), which is cut in a circular round configuration in a plane and is gathered up in a peripheral direction with selectively radial sector cuts or sewing seams or with radially extending tucks or darts, such that said textile screen ( 16 ), by virtue of said cloth being gathered up in the peripheral direction, is prevented from being opened out into a substantially flat textile disk but is resultingly adapted to deploy only into an obtuse-angled frusto-conical shape and thereby is always able to stably maintain said frusto-conical shape in a condition of maximum deployment; and wherein said textile screen ( 16 ) in a front region of said stowage space ( 14 ) is pivotably mounted with a smaller base of its frusto-conical shape to a holding ring ( 15 ), said smaller base facing forwardly in the direction of flight of the projectile.