System for launching and recovering an underwater vehicle
AssigneeFraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
InventorsTorsten Pfuetzenreuter, Thomas Rauschenbach, Gunnar Brink
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Abstract
A system for launching and recovering an underwater vehicle (18), which system comprises a crane (16) and a storage location for at least one underwater vehicle (18), wherein the crane (16) is attached to the bottom of a first container (12) and the storage location is provided in a second container (14), said first container (12) being arranged on the second container (14) during an operation of launching or an operation of recovering.
Claims8
A system for launching and recovering an underwater vehicle, which system comprises a crane and a storage location for at least one underwater vehicle,
- wherein the crane is attached to the bottom of a first container and the storage location is provided in a second container, said first container being arranged on the second container during an operation of launching or an operation of recovering;
- wherein the second container comprises one or more drawer mechanisms with a receiving device each for receiving an underwater vehicle, which drawer mechanisms are relocatable horizontally in the second container's longitudinal direction;
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- wherein at least two drawer mechanisms are arranged one above the other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.