Patent ID: 8074572

Claim:
A cargo round for dispensing submunitions, said round comprising: a nose tip; a casing attached to said tip, said casing forming a chamber; a tail; and a payload disposed within said chamber between said tip and said tail, said payload including: a plurality of axi-symmetric darts, each dart having fore and aft ends along a polar axis, with a cone at said fore end and a conical cavity at said aft end, and front and rear tandem plates, each plate having a plurality of orifices arranged in a symmetric pattern, each said orifice of the front plate receiving a corresponding one of said darts such that said corresponding dart protrudes from both obverse and reverse sides of said front plate, each said orifice of the rear plate receiving one of said darts such that said one of said darts protrudes from both obverse and reverse sides of said rear plate, wherein each said fore end of each dart in said rear plate is inserted within said cavity of a dart in said front plate, and each said plate shears apart on release of said payload from said cargo round to disperse said darts.