EP4384772A2 - Vorrichtung zur sicheren bergung und transport von kampfmitteln, insbesondere von unter wasser gefundenen kampfmitteln - Google Patents
Vorrichtung zur sicheren bergung und transport von kampfmitteln, insbesondere von unter wasser gefundenen kampfmittelnInfo
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- EP4384772A2 EP4384772A2 EP22761210.8A EP22761210A EP4384772A2 EP 4384772 A2 EP4384772 A2 EP 4384772A2 EP 22761210 A EP22761210 A EP 22761210A EP 4384772 A2 EP4384772 A2 EP 4384772A2
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- Prior art keywords
- gripping
- fixing device
- ordnance
- rescue
- support device
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
- F42D—BLASTING
- F42D5/00—Safety arrangements
- F42D5/04—Rendering explosive charges harmless, e.g. destroying ammunition; Rendering detonation of explosive charges harmless
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
- F42B—EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING, FIREWORKS, AMMUNITION
- F42B39/00—Packaging or storage of ammunition or explosive charges; Safety features thereof; Cartridge belts or bags
- F42B39/22—Locking of ammunition in transport containers
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
- F42B—EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING, FIREWORKS, AMMUNITION
- F42B39/00—Packaging or storage of ammunition or explosive charges; Safety features thereof; Cartridge belts or bags
- F42B39/24—Shock-absorbing arrangements in packages, e.g. for shock waves
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F42—AMMUNITION; BLASTING
- F42D—BLASTING
- F42D5/00—Safety arrangements
- F42D5/04—Rendering explosive charges harmless, e.g. destroying ammunition; Rendering detonation of explosive charges harmless
- F42D5/045—Detonation-wave absorbing or damping means
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
- B63G—OFFENSIVE OR DEFENSIVE ARRANGEMENTS ON VESSELS; MINE-LAYING; MINE-SWEEPING; SUBMARINES; AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
- B63G3/00—Arrangements of ammunition stores or handlers; Vessels characterised thereby
- B63G3/06—Arrangements of ammunition stores or handlers; Vessels characterised thereby for mines or depth charges
Definitions
- the invention relates to a device for the safe recovery of ordnance under water and for transport, for example on board a ship or a platform.
- ordnance In the coastal seas, especially in the North and Baltic Seas, there are large amounts of ordnance in the broadest sense. Some of these are objects that have been deployed in a targeted manner, such as sea mines, for example anchor rope mines. Furthermore, it is also about duds, which were used in combat operations. Furthermore, just after the end of the war, very large quantities of ordnance were simply dumped in the course of the disarmament of the Wehrmacht. Especially the latter also includes weapons with chemical warfare agents. These objects range in size from rifle or machine gun ammunition to mines, naval artillery shells, bombs, mines and torpedo heads. It is suspected that there are at least 5 million suspected objects or 1.6 million t in the North and Baltic Seas that could be such ammunition or ammunition parts.
- the ammunition poses a major threat to the environment.
- the explosives and war gases can escape over time due to corrosion, which poses a major threat to the ecosystem.
- Ships can also come into contact with the ammunition and trigger it.
- anchor rope mines there is a risk that the chain connecting the mine to the ground will be separated and the mine will become one Floating mine is and so can get into safe areas, such as a fairway.
- Ordnance can also be relocated and carried to safe areas by currents and movement of the seabed. Leaked and washed up white phosphorus regularly causes injuries. Therefore, it would be desirable to remove all objects.
- duds can be rendered transportable by removing the detonator or by using a slicing charge. Most of the objects, however, which were dumped after the end of hostilities, have no detonators.
- Transportable objects must then be transported for further processing, for example for delaboration.
- many objects are too large to be burned directly, for example, because the quantity of explosives that are burned at the same time would then be too high to still safely control the process.
- WO 2007/068020 A1 discloses a transportable system for defusing ammunition containing fluid warfare agents.
- DE 10 2018 119 339 A1 discloses a method and a device for defusing a dud located under water.
- DE 39 13 479 C1 discloses a method and a system for dismantling toxic and/or explosive objects, in particular chemical weapons. From the subsequently published DE 10 2020 212 443, a device for the safe processing of salvaged ordnance is known.
- the subsequently published DE 10 2021 205 488 discloses a salvage device for salvaging ordnance, the salvage device being designed in two parts, the salvage device having a support device and a gripping and fixing device, the gripping and fixing device for the non-positive, detachable connection to the Support device is formed, characterized in that the gripping and fixing device has a plurality of fixing elements, the fixing elements being vertically movable and lockable.
- a first essential and critical first step is to pick up the ordnance and set it down on a support device. That first touch and movement of the Ordnance can very easily lead to damage occurring, for example parts becoming detached. For example and in particular, explosives can detach. Of course, such objects also pose a threat to the environment.
- the object of the invention is to provide a rescue device that minimizes the risks for the surroundings and the environment.
- the salvage device according to the invention is used to salvage ordnance.
- Weapons are to be understood broadly within the meaning of the invention and can therefore also include suspected objects that later turn out not to be weapons.
- some ordnance has rusted so far over time that in some cases only the explosives are left after the metallic shell has completely corroded. Likewise, once the explosives have been discharged over time, only the shell may be left.
- residues are also understood as munitions within the meaning of the invention, even if these can no longer be used as munitions today, of course.
- the term also includes components of ordnance, for example just the head of a torpedo or detonator.
- the recovery device is preferably designed in particular to be able to accommodate a large part of the known ordnance, for example to accommodate ordnance up to 300 kg or up to 500 kg.
- Ordnance for example up to 2 t, but these are comparatively rare, so manual clearance for these large ordnance is expedient, since the majority consists of dumped small ammunition.
- the recovery device is designed in two parts and has a support device and a gripping and fixing device.
- the gripping and fixing device is designed for a non-positive, detachable connection to the support device.
- the gripping and fixing device has four rotatable elements arranged at the lower corners, which can be inserted into corresponding recesses in the support device and are fixed after a rotation of in particular 90°, so that the support device is thus replaced by the gripping and fixing device is fixed and can be raised.
- Such connection systems are also referred to as twistlocks and are also known and proven, for example, from the field of transport containers.
- the gripping and fixing device has four side walls, the side walls being firmly connected to one another.
- protection is generated comparatively quickly around the ordnance lying on the support device. For example, detaching fragments of the ordnance can be held back comparatively safely, thereby minimizing the impact on the environment.
- the support device has a storage device.
- the storage device is formed from parallel spring elements.
- the spring elements are bent metal strips.
- the supporting device consists, for example, of a rectangular pallet on which metal strips arranged in parallel are arranged. Due to the parallel arrangement, there are recesses between the spring elements, so that a weapon lying on the spring elements can be divided into slices, in particular sawed, without damaging the support device.
- the spring elements are preferably bent in such a way that there is a trough-shaped depression in the middle for receiving a weapon.
- the trough-shaped depression can in particular be round or oblong with a round cross-section be trained.
- the munitions on the one hand can be very different and can therefore also have very different geometries, and on the other hand the external geometry can also have changed over time, for example growth, so it is advantageous that munitions with different geometries can be picked up more easily.
- the spring elements can at least partially adapt to the external geometry. Since the ordnance can also be heavy at the same time, the design of the spring elements in the form of metal strips, such as steel strips, is expedient.
- the spring elements can be plastic-coated or plastic-encased, for example. Teflon, for example, is a suitable plastic, as it also minimizes friction at the same time.
- the gripping and fixing device has a fixing device that can be moved perpendicularly to the support device.
- the fixation device has an outer frame and an elastic net fixed in the frame.
- Suitable elastomers for the elastic network are natural rubber (cis-1,4-polyisoprene), synthetic rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, ethylene-propylene copolymer, polypropylene, ethylene-propylene-diene rubber, silicone rubber, polyurethane and styrene block copolymers.
- the design as a net is therefore particularly preferred, since the linking of the individual strands with one another prevents them from slipping off next to the ordnance, which, for example in the case of a spherical mine, could otherwise result in the ordnance not being securely fastened.
- the weapon can be fixed in place, for example, with a plurality of fixing elements that can be moved vertically and fixed in their position, as are known, for example, from DE 10 2021 205 488.
- the gripping and fixing device has at least one drive, preferably at least two drives. In this way, for example, a flow can be compensated or the exact alignment can be achieved over the support device.
- the gripping and fixing device is designed as an unmanned underwater vehicle.
- the gripping and fixing device can either be remote-controlled (remotely operated underwater vehicle, ROV) or autonomous (autonomous underwater vehicle, AUV).
- ROV remote-controlled underwater vehicle
- AUV autonomous underwater vehicle
- the advantage of training as an ROV is the direct and immediate control by a human, which is often considered necessary, especially when dealing with warfare agents.
- the implementation is easier because no complex automation is necessary.
- the disadvantage, however, is that there must be a connection to the control center. This is not necessary with an AUV, but the automation is more complex.
- the side walls are restrained.
- the side walls have no openings larger than 1 mm, preferably no opening larger than 0.1 mm.
- the side walls can also be completely closed, that is to say without openings (openings of size 0). This offers the best possible protection against escaping objects, such as explosive particles that could be released. On the other hand, this increases the susceptibility to flow. The number and size of the openings can thus be seen as a balance between retention function and flow resistance.
- the side walls each have a grid and a membrane, in particular made of Kevlar.
- This achieves explosion protection, especially protection against splintering in the horizontal plane.
- the risk of an unwanted explosion is comparatively high.
- other structures or even people are comparatively close at this point. It is therefore advantageous if flying fragments or even the propagation of a pressure wave can be avoided at least in the horizontal direction.
- the gripping and fixing device is open at the top.
- suspensions or drives can be arranged in this area.
- open at the top means above all that there is comparatively little resistance to an explosion at the top, as a result of which a pressure wave can be directed upwards.
- the support device has a funnel-shaped edge for receiving and guiding the gripping and fixing device. This makes it easier to connect the gripping and fixing device to the support device.
- Fig. 1 support device with ordnance
- the support device 30 has spring elements 50, which consist of metal strips and are spaced such that the weapon 10 lying on the support device 30 can be sawn up without the support device 30 being damaged.
- the spring elements 50 have a recess which is suitable for receiving the ordnance 10 . Since the spring elements 50 have a certain flexibility, the spring elements 50 can adapt to different ordnance 10 or compensate for the differences in shape, for example by shell growth. At the same time, however, the spring elements 50 are so strong that they can also carry heavy ordnance 10 .
- In the corners of the support device 30 four hole-shaped connecting elements 100 are arranged, in which the hook-shaped connecting elements 110 of the gripping and fixing device 20 can engage.
- the funnel-shaped edge 90 helps establish the connection to the gripping and fixing device 20 .
- Fig. 2 shows the gripping and fixing device 20.
- the gripping and fixing device 20 has four side walls 40, but is open at the top and bottom.
- the gripping and fixing device 20 has four hook-shaped connecting elements 110 on the underside.
- a crane connection can be arranged at the upper end, for example, with which the recovery device can be moved by means of a crane.
- FIG. 3 shows how the gripping and fixing device 20 is arranged over the support device 30 . Then the gripping and fixing device 20 is lowered further and the connection between the gripping and fixing device 20 and the support device 30 is established via the hole-shaped connecting elements 100 and the hook-shaped connecting elements 110 . The resulting result is shown in FIG.
- FIG. 5 omits the side walls 40 for the sake of simplicity, so that the fixation of the ordnance 10 on the inside can be seen.
- An elastic net 80 is placed within a frame 70 . After connecting the gripping and fixing device 20 and the support device 30, the frame 70 is lowered and the elastic net 80 is stretched over the weapon 10 in this way.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| DE102021208657.8A DE102021208657A1 (de) | 2021-08-09 | 2021-08-09 | Vorrichtung zur sicheren Bergung und Transport von Kampfmitteln, insbesondere von unter Wasser gefundenen Kampfmitteln |
| PCT/EP2022/072104 WO2023016942A2 (de) | 2021-08-09 | 2022-08-05 | Vorrichtung zur sicheren bergung und transport von kampfmitteln, insbesondere von unter wasser gefundenen kampfmitteln |
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| EP4384772A2 true EP4384772A2 (de) | 2024-06-19 |
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| WO (1) | WO2023016942A2 (de) |
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| DE102021214012B4 (de) | 2021-12-08 | 2023-11-23 | Thyssenkrupp Ag | Transportbehälter für die Bergung von Kampfmittelaltlasten unter Wasser |
| DE102023101562A1 (de) | 2023-01-23 | 2024-07-25 | Thyssenkrupp Ag | Vorrichtung zur Bergung von Kampfmitteln |
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