Secondary projectile for a tandem warhead

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide for the transmission of the triggering from a fuze having only one triggering exit to the forwardly located and the rearwardly located active charges of a secondary projectile, and which resultingly leads to an increased fragmentation effect.
This transmission of the triggering or detonation is intended to be constructively simple and inexpensive.
The present invention attains the foregoing object in that a booster charge which is triggered by the fuze consists of an explosive material and lies directly against the forwardly located active charge, and wherein the booster charge at the other side thereof is separated by thin cross-ignitable wall segments of a housing of the cross-triggering device from at least two tongue-shaped explosive material poles of the rearwardly located active charge.
Further advantageous modifications of the invention may be readily ascertained from the detailed description as set forth hereinbelow.
Essential to the invention is the symmetrical and large-surfaced triggering transmission towards the rearwardly located active charge.
As a result thereof, the effectiveness of the rearwardly located active charge corresponds with that of the forwardly located active charge.
A special advantage resides in the large-surfaced triggering of the forwardly located active charge.
An operationally-reliable transmission of the triggering is provided by means of the inventive features.
The thin wall segments of the cross-triggering arrangement, which separate the booster charge consisting of explosive material from the tongue-shaped explosive material poles of the rear active charge, afford the simultaneous triggering of the last mentioned poles.