Method to operate with a wire-guided, in air or water, movable vehicle and a device for carrying out the method
AssigneeForsvarets Forskningsanstalt
InventorsHenrik Almstrom, Paul Strom, Lars Lekzen
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Abstract
One embodiment that is shown relates to a reconnaissance and/or weapons system for underwater use and comprises a vehicle 1, which may be a torpedo, and a support 2. The support is connected with torpedo 1 with a control wire 3. The wire has a density lower than that of water and will therefore float. The control wire is stored in a magazine and supported by buoyant means 4.
Claims10
A method to operate with a wire-guided, in air or water movable vehicle (1) from a support (2), characterized in that the vehicle and/or the support is provided with a wire magazine for, a control wire (3), that the support is provided with a device (4) having buoyancy, which is fastened to one or more lines (7), arranged to be able to be wound or unwound by a winding apparatus (8) on the support (2), and having a rest position on or adjacent the support, that the control wire (3) of the vehicle is drawn from the support through a hole in the device (4) having buoyancy, that at the launch of the vehicle (1) the winding apparatus (8) is made to un-wind an adapted length of the line or lines (7), at which the device (4) having buoyancy will rise to the degree the line or lines admit, while the control wire (3) is drawn out of the wire magazine or magazines, and that the vehicle (1) before, after or at the same time as the device having buoyancy is made to leave the support (2) and then during the move will receive guidance information from the support and possibly send back information from a sensor that is installed in the vehicle.
Reconnaissance and/or weapon system comprising a wire guided, in air or water movable vehicle (1) and a support (2) for it, characterized in that the vehicle and/or the support has a wire magazine for 2 control wire (3), that the support is provided with a device (4) having buoyancy, which is fastened to one or more lines (7), arranged to be able to be wound or un-wound by a winding apparatus (8) on the support and having a rest position on or adjacent the support (2), that the control wire (3) of the vehicle is drawn from the support through a hole in the device (4) having buoyancy to the vehicle.
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