The Technology

Technology Background

UCC technology is based upon the following five key components:

Propellant - proprietary formula - very stable - now fast curing

Advanced Booster - fine-tuning of pressure

Electrical Primer - much safer – many applications

Electrical Ignition System - no moving parts – high accuracy, no "lock-time"

Gas-Leak-Proof Chamber - eliminates need for brass casing

Once in each decade, a new technology emerges that changes the face of an entire industry. With ammunition technology however, the advancements have occurred more by the century than by the decade.

As far back as the 1400's, small arms as well as cannons were loaded with loose powder and shot. Later, flint was struck against metal in a variety of ways to provide a shower of sparks that ignited the powder in the breech end of a barrel, usually through an intermediary amount of gunpowder located in a small enclosure called a frizzen pan.

There were a number of innovations in the 1700's and early 1800's in the pursuit of enclosing these fragile elements of firearms, making them weatherproof, as well as easy and safe to handle. By the 1840's the search for reliable and safe ignition of propellant was reaching a crescendo. Two American inventors consolidated a series of overlapping innovations and previous firearm designs into not only one of the first reliable revolvers but also the first successful example of a gun firing fixed ammunition or metallic cartridge ammunition. Smith and Wesson's design is the foundation of the modern revolver.

Almost 170 years later, Hubert Usel has now invented a technology that is changing the face of ammunition as we know it today.

UCC technologies have attained an approximate 75% improvement over propellants developed by others to date. A 50% increase in muzzle velocity alone will double the impact energy.

Conventional chemistry has pushed muzzle velocities for propellants to the limits they can achieve. The rate of expansion of propellant gases places a practical ceiling on muzzle velocities to 1800 m/s (6,000 fps). UCC technology has reached that limit and can state with confidence: "there is no other conventional cartridge and or propellant developer that has come close to our results." UCC technology has achieved this by having the proprietary propellant formulation burn completely from the inside outwards, which enables maximum achievable muzzle velocity.

The electrical primer and ignition system as described previously in the safety chapter.

This system allows for complete stabilization during firing, as there are no moving parts required like hammer or firing-pin. More information is available in next chapter Advantages

Greater Accuracy with Electrical Ignition

Recent developments with caseless ammunition of 30 mm caliber have been very successfully carried out by Mauser-Werke Oberndorf Waffensysteme GmbH in Germany. Since 1997, Mauser has been working on a recoil-less machine cannon using the revolutionary UCC Caseless cartridge technology. Testing of UCC 30 mm HEI/SD-T projectiles achieve consistent velocities of 1800 m/s and 960 m/s was achieved without any recoil.

The primay market would be to the military, as most industries would hesitate to take on a project this large.

Once prooven all others would follow with this new transition, especially once they realize the advantages listed in the next chapter under Advantages which was mainly put together for ammunition producers.

Caseless Technology