Trainable launcher
AssigneeChemring Countermeasures Limited
InventorsAndrew Charles BARLOW, Commodore Richard J. LORD
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Abstract
A launcher comprising multiple barrels arranged on a rotatable plinth, each barrel configured such that its longitudinal axis can be moved through an arc from a first position where the axis is moveable through a plane substantially orthogonal to the plane in which the plinth and barrel assembly rotates to a second position and wherein one or more of the barrels can be moved independently of others carried on the plinth.
Claims17
A launcher, comprising a plurality of barrels arranged on a rotatable plinth, wherein the plurality of barrels are vertically disposed in a normally stowed first position around a vertically oriented and centrally located rotation axis of the plinth, wherein a longitudinal axis of each of said barrels is substantially parallel to the rotational axis of the plinth when disposed in the normally stowed first position and moveable along an arc away from the centrally located rotational axis of the plinth from the stowed first position to a second position, and wherein one or more of the plurality of barrels is moveable independently of other barrels arranged on the plinth, and wherein at least two of the plurality of barrels are spaced at an equal distance from the axis of the plinth.
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