Patent ID: 8042472

Claim:
A cartridge ammunition having a cartridge shell and a projectile inserted into the cartridge shell and mechanically connected with it, a propellant charge comprising a pyrotechnical charge, provided in a propellant chamber of the cartridge shell, which is ignited with an ignition device also containing a pyrotechnical charge and whose propellant gases exert a pressure on the bottom of the projectile upon combustion, by means of which the projectile is expelled from the cartridge shell, the improvement wherein, an inert, meltable substance is incorporated into the pyrotechnical charges of the propellant charge and/or the pyrotechnical ignition device, whose melting temperature is lower than the ignition temperature of the pyrotechnical charges of the propellant charge and/or the ignition device and which, upon the melting, phlegmatizes the pyrotechnical charges of the propellant charge and/or the ignition device to such an extent that the ammunition can no longer be ignited by the ignition device.