Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F41—WEAPONS
  • F41H—ARMOUR; ARMOURED TURRETS; ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES; MEANS OF ATTACK OR DEFENCE, e.g. CAMOUFLAGE, IN GENERAL
  • F41H7/00—Armoured or armed vehicles
  • F41H7/02—Land vehicles with enclosing armour, e.g. tanks
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F41—WEAPONS
  • F41H—ARMOUR; ARMOURED TURRETS; ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES; MEANS OF ATTACK OR DEFENCE, e.g. CAMOUFLAGE, IN GENERAL
  • F41H11/00—Defence installations; Defence devices
  • F41H11/12—Means for clearing land minefields; Systems specially adapted for detection of landmines
  • F41H11/16—Self-propelled mine-clearing vehicles; Mine-clearing devices attachable to vehicles
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F41—WEAPONS
  • F41H—ARMOUR; ARMOURED TURRETS; ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES; MEANS OF ATTACK OR DEFENCE, e.g. CAMOUFLAGE, IN GENERAL
  • F41H7/00—Armoured or armed vehicles
  • F41H7/02—Land vehicles with enclosing armour, e.g. tanks
  • F41H7/04—Armour construction

Definitions

• Tanks continue to act an important and indispensable ar in modern warfare, since upon occupying the tactical fields they, comprise the backbone of the ground forces and represent a tactical power of determinate importance, ⁇ i is unotwithstandingan able that the construction of newer types of modem and up-to-date tanks plays a significant role in the field of military technique- developments.
• the main trend of the developments is to increase the firepower, the mobility and the armour protection of the tanks, to improve the performance and reliability of the observing, operating and laying equipment and devices and to employ more and more wrMo-date, high-performance, computer controlled mechanisms.
• the weight of the tanks being presently in service, has significantly increased (e.g, an Ml A2 tank weighs 6 tons), which, i the first place, derives from the increased armour protection, but this circumstance necessitated the use of a higher jertftrmanee and heavier-weight resource.
• this weapon also facilitates the destruction of air combat vehicles and it facilitates the construction of a turret having much smaller calibre and volume than the turret of a present tank has.
• This turret can also be better constructed from the ballistic point of view, ft also makes the construction of a storage place for the voluminous gun ammunition reserve unnecessary.
• the invented armour protection can, beside the more favourable ballistic build-up, be increased with such a new solution, that, the turret and the hull have muftHayers and the outermost steel armour plate is covered by wolfram or another similar hard metal layer or plate.
• the invented tank is equipped with climbing-pulling mechanisms, which can be launched to the proper distance by a launching mechanism and which are connected to a wire rope in a way that they can he dismantled.
• a launching mechanism After the launching the climbing amis of the climbing-pulling mechanism expand, then the pull of the winch make them get deep n the ground, then further pull facilitates the progress of the tank on a slope steeper than 60°, but this mechanism has a braking effect during getting down from a steep slope in backward motion.
• the invented tank facilitates, as against the present-day types, the overcome of bigger ground obstacles.
• the trench-spanning (3,6m) and stage climbing (I Sm) abilities of present-day tanks are considerably limited owing to their heavy weights.
• the invented tank is equipped with hydraulic supporting-holding legs, which are folded up in a recess at the bottom plate and which are equipped with climbing elements that lengthen to the required sfee upon being operated and after the direction has been set.
• Some types of the present-day tanks are equipped with such tankguns that are capable of launching missiles, as well.
• the accommodation of the many pieces of large missiles requires a considerable stowage place and occupies a lot of space in the hull, ⁇ n order to eliminate this disadvantage there is a missile holding-launching mechanism fastened on the rear of the invented tank. Th s mechanism can be moved in two directions and the missiles placed on it are lapped by the tank hull when it is in standstill.
• the present-day tanks can be operated by crew attendance, only, thus putting them out of action usually requires the sacrifice of human beings.
• This disadvantage is eliminated by the invented tank, all of whose functions arc elaborated in a way that there is an integrated connection, without crew participation, between the equipment, devices, tools, to be operated and a high- capacity computer, which computer is equipped with a microwave transmitter and receiver and which are interconnected by remote control with a commander's control equipment equipped with microwave receiver and transmitter and installed in a deployed or moving tank
• This solution facilitates the control of several unmanned tanks and the operation of their tactical and other functions from a common commander's position.
• the antimine defence of present-day tanks is only half-solved. Certain types,, only, have reinforced bottom plates serving as antimine defence.
• the invented tank is equipped with such a pneumatically or hydrauiieally moveable mechanism that, extending in front of she nose part ftom the chamber surrounded by the hull, is equipped with a wire lath, on which lath soil detectors, explosive material detectors * electromagnetic sensors, metal locating detectors and microwave transceivers are installed, with which the mines can be detected.
• the invented tank may be equipped with a hydrogen engine serving as a resource that facilitates a felly antipoilution operation and makes the reconnaissance of the tank more difficult, since thermal emission is completely missing at this mode of propulsion.
• the present-day tank armament does not contain a mortar launcher, thus overcoming by a tank of relief lap and that of dugout combat positions meet with a hindrance.
• the invented tank is also equipped with a mortar launcher, which mortar launcher is lifted to the required height by a hydraulic mechanism from the hull through the hatch of the turret and the mortar shell is loaded into the mortar barrel by a mechanism equipped with a swivel arm - hy a loading mechanism for a mortar launcher with breech loading, then after adjusting the mortar launcher by the laying equipment in the required direction, launching in the direction of the target can he executed.
• the missile launcher ready for launching

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• 2002
  • 2002-07-16 HU HU0202333A patent/HU0202333D0/hu unknown
• 2003
  • 2003-07-15 EP EP03764033A patent/EP1592943A2/en not_active Withdrawn
  • 2003-07-15 WO PCT/HU2003/000057 patent/WO2004008061A2/en not_active Ceased
  • 2003-07-15 AU AU2003249100A patent/AU2003249100A1/en not_active Abandoned

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