Droppable mine
AssigneeRheinmetall GmbH
InventorJoachim Paech
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Abstract
In known droppable mines it customarily becomes necessary, because of the consistency and slope of the ground, to right the mine into a position favorable for its action, with such a position being fixable, if possible, for the entire duration of deployment independently of extraneous influences. Since in the past such fixing was realized in the known mines only in a complicated and unsatisfactory manner, the mine (10) according to the invention includes a sack (18) which is arranged below a righting balloon (16) and is filled with a hardenable foam. In this way, the stability of the mine (10) is decisively improved. Due to the underside (22) of the sack (18) being kept permeable, the foam is also able to escape into a zone (34) between the ground (12) and the sack (18) and cause the mine (10) to adhere to the ground (12) in its position.
Claims12
Droppable mine including:
- a mine housing;
- means, including a balloon surrounding the circumference of said mine housing, to right and position the mine housing;
- and a fixing device for fixing the mine housing on the ground in a desired position, said fixing device being composed of a foam generator for generating a hardenable foam, a sack disposed at the underside of the mine housing, and conduits for supplying the foam generated by the foam generator to the sack to fill the sack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.