Deep operating monitor and destruct device
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorHoward R. Talkington
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Abstract
An interdiction system to be placed upon the floor of the ocean includes a arget detection and classification system which is cooperatively connected to a hollow enclosure containing a predetermined volume at one atmosphere or less pressure. Upon target aquisition and classification, the detection and classification system actuates a mechanism to rupture the wall of the hollow enclosure. The resultant implosion caused by the ambient ocean pressure creates a high intensity shock wave in the vicinity of the system to damage the intruding vessel.
Claims10
An interdiction system for preventing intrusion into a predetermined underwater area comprising:
- anchor means for determining a fixed position on the floor of the ocean;
- detection means effectively attached to said anchor means for buoyant support in fixed relation thereto;
- frangible vessel means containing a volume of low-pressure gas and effectively attached to said anchor means and to said detection means for maintaining a volume at low atmospheric pressure in said underwater area;
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- pertusion means physically attached to said frangible vessel means in engaging relation therewith and operationally connected to said detection means to be actuated thereby for destructively penetrating said frangible vessel, such that the ambient pressure surrounding the interdiction system produces an underwater implosion in the underwater area at the fixed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.