Patent ID: 7360486

Claim:
A small arms projectile for a small arms weapon, which projectile comprises a warhead having an explosive charge, an initiator, and a firing pin, the initiator having safe and armed conditions and capable of detonating the explosive charge of the warhead when the initiator is in the armed condition and impacted with sufficient force by the firing pin, wherein the projectile further comprises shielding means positioned between the initiator and the explosive charge of the warhead, which shielding means is slidable from a safety position in which the shielding means shields the explosive charge of the warhead from the initiator, to an armed position in which the initiator is capable of detonating the explosive charge of the warhead, the shielding means being slidable, separately from the initiator, from the safe to the armed position in response to the initiator moving from the safe to the armed conditions, wherein rotation of the initiator from the safety to the armed condition causes the shielding means to slide from the safety to the armed position.