Nose-deployed parachute recovery module for gun firing and soft recovery of finned projectiles

摘要

A gun fired, artillery projectile and parachute recovery system for fin-silized, non-spinning projectiles. It has a a cylindrical payload with several fins mounted at its rear end and a conical nose section attached on the front end. The nose section has a base attached to a hollow windshield by frangible shear pins. The windshield encloses a parachute housing containing a parachute assembly attached by a bridle line to the base at a base pin. A time fuze at the forward end of the windshield activates an expulsion charge capable of separating the windshield from the parachute housing. A deployment spring attached between the base and parachute housing at one side ejects the parachute assembly from a side of the parachute housing far away from the fins. Thus upon firing the projectile at an angle of from about 40° to about 85° and activating the expulsion charge with the time fuze, the shear pins separate the windshield from the parachute housing, eject the parachute assembly from the parachute housing away from the fins into a windstream and deploy the parachute, effecting a fins down, soft landing and recovery of the projectile.