Patent ID: 7481145

Claim:
A projectile device for detonating Munition in flight along a trajectory path after being fired from a gun, the projectile device comprising: (a) a modified shell; and (b) a cartridge associated with said shell prior to firing, containing a launch propellant for accelerating said projectile along the barrel of the gun to a muzzle velocity; and wherein said modified shell includes: c) the projectile device associated with said shell prior to launching, containing Munitions; and d) the projectile device associated with said shell prior to firing, containing an electronic system; and e) the electronic system associated with said shell prior to firing, containing electronic range measuring circuitry; and f) the electronic system associated with said shell prior to firing, containing the electronic detonator circuit; wherein said modified shell includes: (i) a symmetrical groove cut into the shell's metal base plate, around the perimeter of the primer, and (ii) a hole, penetrating the shell's outer and inner surfaces located symmetrically inside the grooves; and (iii) an electrical insulating material overlaying the symmetrical groove and hole; and (iv) a thin, symmetrical, electrical, metallic ring with stem and attached wire penetrating the insulated hole, while overlaying the symmetric insulated ring; and (v) the insulated wire attached to the metallic ring runs inside the length of the shell terminating into an input connector; and (vi) a ground wire attached and insulated goes into the shell's inner wall and terminates into the same input connector; and (vii) the insulated input connector is attached to the cruise munitions detonator circuitry inside the projectile.