Investigation Of The Effects Of Changes In Weights Of Pallets And Rotors In Mechanical Fuzes On Muzzle Safety

In this study, the effects of pallet and rotor weights to the arming time, in other words muzzle safety, were investigated. Pallets and rotors are both located in the artilley and mortar SAD mechanisms which are used to provide safety of personnel before, during and after firing of the ammunition. In this experimental study, weights of the pallets have been altered for the smoothbore-mortar ammunition while similar changes have been applied to the weights of the rotors for the rifled-artillery ammunition and then, arming time of the SAD mechanisms were examined according to these changes. The weights have been reduced up to 7-38% for the pallets whereas up to 9-17% for the rotors. Eventually, it was concluded that arming time has been reduced by decreasing the weight of the pallets, however, arming time has been increased by applying the similar weight reduction operation to the rotors