EP3169966A1

EP3169966A1 - Weapons transport system for a submarine

Info

Publication number: EP3169966A1
Application number: EP15732271.0A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Marco Mundt
Original assignee: ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems GmbH
Current assignee: ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems GmbH
Priority date: 2014-07-16
Filing date: 2015-06-30
Publication date: 2017-05-24
Anticipated expiration: 2035-06-30
Also published as: DE102014213795A1; ES2754214T3; KR101971805B1; KR20170037942A; WO2016008715A1; EP3169966B1

Abstract

The invention relates to a weapons transport system for a submarine, for transporting a weapon from a facility for storing and/or carrying the weapon, to another facility for storing and/or carrying the weapon. The weapons transport system comprises a carriage provided with coupling means, by means of which the carriage can be secured to the weapon. The carriage can be moved, together with the weapon, from a start position in one of the facilities for storing and/or carrying the weapon, into an end position in the other facility for storing and/or carrying the weapon.

Description

Weapon transport system for a submarine

description

The invention relates to a weapon transport system for a submarine with the features specified in the preamble of claim 1.

At the beginning and during the deployment of military submarines, it is often necessary to transport weapons from one device for supporting and / or guiding the weapon to another device for supporting and / or guiding the weapon. Examples of this are taking place when submerged submarine weapons intake and the

Reloading the weapon tubes with stored in the interior of the submarine

Called reserve weapons.

The weapon recording can be made on the upper gun tubes of the submarine, which is at appropriate trim of the submarine above the

Water surface are located. In this state of the submarine, a so-called weapons transfer platform with a weapon mounted thereon, z. B. a torpedo, so placed in front of the corresponding gun barrel, that the weapon can be moved from the weapons transfer stage in the barrel. There, the weapon may remain or it is, if it is a reserve weapon, spent on the barrel into the interior of the barrel, where it is stored on a gun barrel. When reloading a gun barrel with a reserve weapon, the gun pit on which the weapon to be loaded is stored, so positioned in front of the inner opening of the gun barrel that the weapon can be moved from the gun barrel in the weapons raw r.

Most of the transport of weapons in submarines is associated with a relatively large amount of time and personnel. In this regard, a known from EP 2 281 742 A1 storage and loading device for a weapon in a submarine, the

Reloading of weapon tubes with in the pressure hull of the submarine

Arms stored weapons is an improvement. This storage and charging device has a transport device which is arranged in the gun trough in the transport direction of the weapon behind the weapon. Within the gun well, the transport device with the weapon located in front of it is movable up to the front in the transport direction of the gun barrel, where the weapon can be completely pushed into the weapon barrel with a telescopic cylinder of the transport device. A disadvantage of this storage and loading device, however, is that the transport device is driven by an electric motor and the telescopic cylinder is hydraulically actuated, so that two different forms of energy for the operation of the storage and Loading device must be provided. Another disadvantage of this device is its relatively complex structure as a whole.

Against this background, the invention is based on the object

Create a weapon transport system for a submarine with a simple technical structure, with which a weapon can be transported reliably and with little time and personnel expenses.

This object is achieved by a weapon transport system having the features specified in claim 1. Advantageous developments of this weapon transport system will become apparent from the dependent claims, the following description and the drawings. In this case, the features specified in the dependent claims in each case, but also in a suitable combination with each other, the inventive solution according to claim 1 further develop.

The weapon transport system according to the invention for a submarine is provided for transporting a weapon from a device for supporting and / or guiding the weapon to another device for supporting and / or guiding the weapon. That is, that

Weapon transport system serves to transfer a weapon from a device in which a weapon is stored and / or guided, in another device in which the weapon is then stored or guided. In this case, at least one further device for guiding the weapon can be arranged between these two devices, via which the weapon is guided during a transport. The means for storing and / or guiding the weapon preferably each form part of the weapon transport system. They can all be within the submarine, or both partially within and partially outside of the submarine

Submarines can be arranged.

To transport the weapon, the weapon transport system has a movable carriage. This can be moved by means of a drive which is integrated directly in the carriage. Preferably, however, the carriage is operatively connected to a drive arranged outside the carriage, which is preferably an electromotive, but alternatively also a pneumatic or hydraulic drive. For releasably securing the carriage to the weapon, the carriage has corresponding coupling means. The nature of this coupling agent is basically arbitrary, as long as a releasable, positive connection of carriage and weapon can be created with them.

The peculiarity of the weapon transport system according to the invention is that the carriage is movable together with the weapon from a start position in one of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon in an end position in another device for supporting and / or guiding the weapon. This allows a comparatively simple construction of the weapon transport system according to the invention, wherein the

Weapon transport system can only be operated by means of electrical, hydraulic or pneumatic energy. Another advantage of this weapon transport system consists in that the transport of the weapon at best, only one person is required for moving the carriage. In the weapon transport system according to the invention is in principle only to ensure that a continuous travel for the carriage from the starting position of the carriage-containing means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon to the end position of the carriage forming means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon.

On the individual devices for the storage and / or management of the weapon, which form part of the weapon transport system, the carriage is expediently slidably mounted. In order to ensure a controlled movement of the carriage and, consequently, a controlled movement of the weapon from the device forming the starting position of the carriage to the device which forms the end position of the carriage

Advantageously, each of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon has a guide profile for positively guiding the carriage, the guide profiles of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon during weapon transport forming a continuous guide for the carriage. In connection with the attachment of the weapon to the carriage via the coupling means provided on the carriage, the positive guidance of the carriage in the guide profiles also serves to secure the weapon in the weapon transport system.

Preferably, the carriage is motion coupled with a drive which is fixedly arranged in one of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon. Here, the individual case decides on which of the devices for storage and / or guidance of the weapon the drive is arranged, d. h., That the drive can in principle be arranged on each of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon. At a

Weapon transport system next to one in the pressure hull of the submarine

arranged means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon also has one or more guided by the pressure hull or located outside of the pressure hull facilities for storage and / or management of the weapon is the drive

expediently arranged on the arranged within the pressure hull device for storage and / or management of the weapon, where he is responsible for controlling the weapon transport system crew member of the submarine to operate the

Weapon transport system but also for the purpose of maintenance and possibly necessary repairs is easily accessible.

The carriage is preferably motion-coupled to the drive via an elongate push-pull element. The length of this push-pull element typically depends on the maximum possible travel distance of the carriage in the

Weapons transport system. Otherwise, the push-pull element can be any component which, however, must be suitable both for transmitting tensile and shear forces on the slide. As a motion-coupled drive with the push-pull element, a linear drive as well as a rotary drive can be provided. The latter is preferred in development of the invention, in which case a Gear for converting the rotational movement of the motor shaft is provided in a linear movement of the push-pull element.

According to a further preferred embodiment of the invention, the push-pull element is guided in the guide profiles of the facilities for storage and / or management of the weapon shielded from the outside environment of the weapon transport system. In this respect, the carriage and the weapon are essentially the only freely accessible moving components of the weapon transport system. The guidance of the push-pull element in the guide profiles is advantageously such that the guide profiles stabilize the push-pull element transversely to its longitudinal extent.

Structurally simple can be provided as a push-pull element in the direction of the guide rails linearly movable rod. However, the use of a rod as a push-pull element may cause the weapon transport system to take up a large space if necessary. In this respect, it is more advantageous to use such a push-pull element, which is substantially rigid in the longitudinal direction or rigidly guided and is designed to be flexible transversely to its longitudinal extent. Due to this configuration, the push-pull element on the one hand for transmitting the necessary to move the carriage thrust or tensile forces, on the other hand allows its flexibility transverse to its longitudinal extent a bending of the push-pull element outside the guide profiles, resulting in the space required significantly lower for the push-pull element.

In this context, a further advantageous embodiment of

According to the weapon transport system according to the invention, according to which in the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon, in which the drive is arranged, a

preferably elongated and aligned parallel to the guide profile of the carriage magazine for the push-pull element is provided. In this arrangement of the magazine for the push-pull element is expediently to provide a push-pull element which is deflected at an angle of 180 ° transverse to its longitudinal extent.

Advantageously, a chain or a toothed belt can form such a push-pull element. Further advantageously, a push chain can be provided as a push-pull element. Here, a chain is to be understood as such a chain, the chain links connect under load in the thrust direction such that they are rigid with each other, but behave flexibly in a tensile load and are bendable relative to each other.

The weapon transport system according to the invention can serve a weapon mounted on a weapon trough arranged in the pressure hull of the submarine into a weapon barrel guided through the pressure body wall and optionally from there into the gun

Spend the outside environment of the submarine. In this case, one of the facilities for storing and / or guiding the weapon is expediently a weapon trough. At this gun well is advantageously in the direction of the longitudinal extent of

Weapon trough extending guide profile formed for the carriage. Furthermore, then another of the facilities for storage and / or leadership of the weapon is conveniently carried out by the pressure hull of the submarine

Barrel. Also, the gun barrel is equipped with a guide profile for the carriage, which is aligned with the formed on the gun trough guide profile, so that there is a continuous guidance of the gun trough to the gun barrel for the slide.

As a rule, it is not possible to open the gun well immediately before the open

To arrange gun barrel, so that the formed on the gun trough and trained in the barrel guide profile form a continuous guide for the slide. In order to meet this, it is advantageous to provide another means for guiding the weapon in the form of a bridge to connect the weapon trough with the gun barrel, which also has a guide profile, which in alignment with the guide profile of the gun trough and the guide profile of the gun barrel can be brought.

Another use of the weapon transport system of the invention may be to spend weapons from outside the submarine into the interior of the gun barrel. In this case, expediently next to the gun barrel one

On the output side of the gun barrel in the water-flooded forecastle of the submarine gun arranged and a positionable in front of a trained on the outside of the submarine ejection opening for the weapon weapons transfer stage further facilities for storage and / or leadership of the weapon.

The weapon transport system according to the invention is preferably intended for use in a submarine. In this respect, the invention also relates to a submarine, which has a weapon transport system with the features described above.

The invention is based on the drawing shown in the drawing

Embodiments explained in more detail. In the drawing, each show in a schematically greatly simplified schematic representation and in different scales:

1 is a first weapon transport system for a submarine in a plan view,

Fig. 2 shows a portion of the weapon transport system of FIG. 1 in a

Side View,

Fig. 3 shows a further portion of the weapon transport system of FIG. 1 in a

Side View, 4 shows a second weapon transport system for a submarine in a plan view,

Fig. 5 shows a portion of the weapon transport system of FIG. 4 in a

Side view and

6 shows a drive of the weapon transport systems according to FIGS. 1 and 4.

The weapon transport system 2 shown in Fig. 1 is arranged completely in a submarine, not shown in the drawing. The main components of the

Weapontransport system 2 are arranged in the pressure hull of the submarine gun trough 4, a bow side of the submarine through the wall of the pressure hull guided gun barrel 6, which, if it is not loaded with a weapon or if no weapon is ejected from it at its inside the Pressure body arranged opening and its outside of the pressure hull arranged opening with hinged lids is pressure-tightly sealed, arranged between the gun trough 4 and the gun barrel 6 with pivoted lid of the submarine bridge 8 and an output side of the gun barrel 6 arranged gun guide 10 im

water-flooded foredeck of the submarine.

The weapon trough 4 serves for the storage of a weapon 12 and, with regard to the construction intended for the storage and guidance of the weapon, corresponds essentially to a weapon trough known from DE 10 2009 020 323 A1. In the area of their end facing away from the gun barrel 6, a drive 14 for a carriage 16 slidably mounted in the gun barrel 4 is arranged on the gun barrel 4. The carriage 16 has in the drawing, for reasons of clarity, not shown coupling means with which the carriage 16 is releasably secured to the arranged in the direction of the gun barrel 6 in front of the carriage 16 weapon 12.

At the gun trough 4, a guide profile 18 is formed, which serves to guide the carriage 16. The guide profile 18 extends in the gun trough 4 linearly to the end of the gun trough 4, which faces the gun barrel 6. The between the

Armpit 4 and the weapon tube 6 arranged bridge 8 forms a guide for the weapon 12, which corresponds to the leadership of the weapon 12 in the gun trough 4. On the bridge 8, a guide profile 20 is formed for the carriage 16, which is aligned with the formed on the gun trough 4 guide profile 18 and corresponds in terms of its cross section to the guide section 18 at the gun trough 4. Another guide profile 22 for the carriage 16 is formed in the interior of the gun barrel 6 and extends linearly over its entire length, where it is with the

Guide profile 20 on the bridge 8 is aligned and in terms of its cross section the

Guide profiles 18 and 20 corresponds. Finally, in the gun guide 10 with respect to a position and cross-sectional shape with the guide profiles 18, 20 and 22nd

corresponding guide profile 24 is provided, which extends from the end of the gun barrel 6 to the outside of the submarine. Together, the guide profiles 18, 20, 22 and 24 form a linearly oriented guide for the carriage 16, in which the carriage 16 is movable from a starting position in the gun trough 4 to the weapon guide 10 arranged in the forecastle of the submarine, the cross-sectional contour of

Guide profiles 18, 20, 22 and 24 prevents movement of the carriage transversely or obliquely to the longitudinal extent of the guide profiles 18, 20, 22 and 24.

The carriage 16 is operatively connected to the drive 14 via a transverse in its direction transverse to its longitudinal extent flexible push-pull element 26. In the push-pull element 26 may, as shown in Fig. 6, a timing belt or a simple

Link chain or a push chain trade. The push-pull element 26 is, when the carriage 14 is in its starting position in the weapon trough 4, arranged largely in an elongated magazine 28. The magazine 28 is arranged in the weapon trough 4 directed parallel to the guide profile 18 and has two juxtaposed

Guideways 30 and 32 and a deflection 34, which is formed on a side facing away from the drive 14 end of the magazine (Figures 2 and 3).

From the magazine 28, the push-pull element 26 is guided to the drive 14. In the drive 14 illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 3, the push-pull element 26 is arranged with one on a motor shaft of an electric drive motor (not illustrated)

Drive wheel 36 in positive contact, adjacent to which a deflection wheel 38 is arranged, by means of which the push-pull element 26 is deflected in the guide profile 18. In addition to the guide profile 18, the guide profiles 20 formed on the bridge 8, the guide profile 22 formed on the weapon barrel 6, and the guide rail 24 formed on the outside of the weapon barrel 6 form a guide for the push-pull element 26.

As an alternative to the drive 14, the drive 14 'shown in FIG. 6 can also be used. Like the drive 14, this also has a drive wheel 36, which is arranged on a motor shaft of an electric drive motor (not shown) and which is combed by a toothed belt which forms the push-pull element 26. Instead of the deflection wheel 36 of the drive 14, the drive 14 'has two deflection wheels 40 and 42, which are arranged such that the push-pull element 26 is guided on the drive wheel 36 and the deflection wheels 40 and 42 in the form of an omega wrap ,

The mode of operation of the weapon transport system 2 illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 3 becomes clear, in particular, from FIGS. 2 and 3. First, the weapon is 12, at which it is is a torpedo, stored in the gun trough 4, wherein it is connected via the coupling means, not shown, with the carriage 16 (Fig. 2). From this starting position in the gun trough 4 of the carriage 16 is together with the weapon 12 in a continuous movement and, consequently, comparatively quickly by operating the drive 14 of the push-pull element 26 via the bridge 8 in the

Gun barrel 6 pushed. In this case, the carriage 16 moves so far into the weapon barrel 6 until a retaining pawl 44 arranged in the weapon barrel 6 detects a retaining peg arranged on the outer circumference of the weapon 12, so that the weapon 12 is fixed in the weapon barrel 6. Now, the compound of the carriage 16 is released with the weapon 12 and the carriage 16 is moved back out of the barrel 6 out over the bridge 8 in the gun trough 4 in its starting position.

If the weapon 12 is, for example, an underwater mine, the carriage 16 with the weapon 12 can also, as described above, move from the starting position shown in FIG. 2 via the bridge 8 and the weapon barrel 6 into the weapon guide 10 in FIG Forward of the submarine that the weapon 12 can be placed in the outer environment of the submarine.

The main components of the weapons transport system 2 'shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 are a weapon barrel 6' guided on the bow side of the submarine through the wall of the pressure hull, which is normally connected to its opening arranged in the interior of the pressure hull and to its opening arranged outside the pressure hull

pivotable lids is pressure-tightly sealed, an output side of the gun barrel 6 'arranged gun guide 10 in the water-flooded forecastle of the submarine and a weapons transfer platform 46, which is positioned in front of a trained on the outside of the submarine discharge opening for the weapon.

The arranged in the forecastle of the submarine gun 10 corresponds to the

Weapon guide 6 'differs from the weapon barrel 6 of the weapon transport system 2 illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 3 in that the guide profile 18' does not extend over the entire length of the weapon barrel 6 '. extends and in the gun barrel 6 'adjacent to the located in the interior of the pressure hull end of the gun barrel 6' a drive 14 is arranged. Furthermore, a magazine 28 'for a push-pull element 26 are arranged in the weapon barrel 6', via which the carriage 16 to the drive 14th

is effective. The structure of the magazine 28 'is basically the same as that of the magazine 28. At the weapons transfer platform 46, a guide profile 48 is formed, which coincides in terms of position and cross-sectional shape with the formed on the gun guide 10 guide profile 20.

The weapon transport system 2 ', as shown in Fig. 4, can be used to load the

Submarines with weapons 12 serve. For this purpose, the weapons transfer platform 46 is positioned with a mounted weapon 12 so in front of a provided at the bow of the submarine ejection opening that the guide profile 48 of the weapons transfer platform 46 is aligned with the guide profile 20 of the gun guide 10 in the forecastle of the submarine. Now the carriage 16 of the gun barrel 6 'on the gun guide 10 to the

Waffenübernahmebühne 46 proceed where the carriage 16 is attached via its coupling means, not shown, on the weapon 12. Subsequently, the carriage 16 is withdrawn together with the weapon 12 by means of the push-pull element 26 in the barrel 6 '. Without the use of weapons transfer platform 46 can

Weapon transport system 2 'also be used to a stored in the barrel 6' weapon 12, in which it is z. B. may be an underwater mine, as shown in Fig. 5, deploy from the submarine.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

2, 2 'weapon transport system

4 weapon trough

6, 6 'barrel

8 bridge

10 Weapon Guide

12 weapon

14, 14 'drive

16 sleds

18 guide profile

20 guide profile

22 guide profile

24 guide profile

26 push-pull element

28, 28 'magazine

30 guideway

32 guideway

34 diversion

36 drive wheel

38 deflection wheel

40 deflection wheel

42 diverter wheel retaining latch

Waffenübernahmebuhne leadership profile

Claims

claims

1 . Weapon transport system (2, 2 ') for a submarine for transporting a weapon (12) from a device for supporting and / or guiding the weapon to another device for supporting and / or guiding the weapon (12), characterized in that a carriage (16) is provided, which has coupling means, by means of which the carriage (16) can be fastened to the weapon (12), and which is connected to the weapon (12) from a starting position in one of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon ( 12) in an end position in the other means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon (12) is movable.

2. weapon transport system (2, 2 ') according to claim 1, characterized in that each of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon (12) has a guide profile (18, 20, 22, 24, 48) for the positive guidance of the carriage ( 16), wherein the guide profiles (18, 20, 22, 24, 48) of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon (12) during weapon transport form a continuous guide for the carriage (16).

3. Weapon transport system (2, 2 ') according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the carriage (16) with a drive (14, 14') is motion-coupled, which is fixed in one of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon (12) is arranged.

4. weapon transport system (2, 2 ') according to claim 3, characterized in that the carriage (16) via an elongate push-pull element (26) with the drive (14, 14') is coupled for movement.

5. Weapon transport system (2, 2 ') according to claim 4, characterized in that the push-pull element (26) in the guide profiles (18, 20, 22, 24, 48) of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon (12) is guided.

6. Weapon transport system (2, 2 ') according to one of claims 4 or 5, characterized

characterized in that the push-pull element (26) is designed to be substantially rigid in the longitudinal direction or rigidly guided and is designed to be flexible transversely to its longitudinal extent.

7. Weapon transport system (2, 2 ') according to one of claims 4 to 6, characterized

characterized in that in the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon (12), in which the drive (14, 14 ') is arranged, a preferably elongated and parallel to the guide profile (18, 20, 22, 24, 48) aligned Magazine (28, 28 ') for the push-pull element (26) is provided.

8. Weapon transport system (2, 2 ') according to one of claims 4 to 7, characterized

in that a push chain is provided as push-pull element (26).

9. Weapon transport system (2, 2 ') according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that one of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon (12) is a weapon trough (4).

10. weapon transport system (2, 2 ') according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that one of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon (12) is guided by the pressure hull of the submarine gun barrel (6).

1 1. Weapon transport system (2, 2 ') according to any one of claims 9 or 10, characterized in that one of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon (12) has a bridge (8) for connecting the weapon trough (4) with the Gun barrel (6) is.

12. weapon transport system (2, 2 ') according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that one of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon (12) has an output side of the weapon barrel (6) arranged in the forecastle of the submarine gun guide (10) is.

13. weapon guidance system (2, 2 ') according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that one of the means for supporting and / or guiding the weapon (12) positioned in front of a formed on the outside of the submarine ejection opening for the weapon (12) positionable Waffenübernahmebühne (46) is.

14. submarine, characterized in that it comprises a weapon transport system (2, 2 ') according to one of claims 1 to 1 1.