Weapon system
AssigneeKrauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsHeinrich Heldmann, Siegfried Suss, Georg Scheidemann
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Abstract
A weapon system, especially for a ship, having a rocket launcher and an ammunition compartment for storing rocket containers designed to each accommodate at least one rocket. Disposed in the ammunition compartment is a guide mechanism on which at least two ammunition carriages, designed to accommodate the rocket containers, are displaceably disposed, whereby they can be shifted out of a parked position into a loading position in which the rocket container is disposed essentially below a slide-in structure of the rocket launcher. Securing mechanisms are provided for securing the ammunition carriages in place on the guide mechanism.
Claims18
A weapon system, comprising:
- a rocket launcher having a slide-in structure;
- an ammunition compartment for storing rocket containers designed to each accommodate at least one rocket;
- a guide mechanism disposed in said ammunition compartment;
- at least two ammunition carriages designed to accommodate are displaceably disposed on said guide mechanism and are adapted to be shifted out of a parked position into a loading position in which said rocket container is disposed essentially below said slide-in structure of said rocket launcher;
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- securing means for securing said ammunition carriages in place on said guide mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.