RU2551604C1 - Method for protection from terrorists at water areas - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: method involves using a non-lethal agent based on a CS irritant. A ship is fitted with a system with both reconnaissance and striking unmanned aerial vehicles. The method includes, upon detecting a hazardous object, carrying out a warning fly-by with a reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle over an object classified by the system operator in collaboration with ship drivers as safe at the moment of detection, carrying out a warning fly-by with the striking unmanned aerial vehicle over an object classified as potentially hazardous, with deployment of an aerosol cloud, striking, with the striking unmanned aerial vehicle, a moving object classified as hazardous, with deployment of a screening cloud in front of the object, which prevents hijacking of the ship by suspicious persons through preventive neutralisation thereof. The unmanned aerial vehicles used can be a quadcopter controlled from an on-board mobile portable computer connected to the GLONASS system or separately from the GLONASS system.

EFFECT: high efficiency of fighting terrorism.

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Description

The invention relates to methods for protecting transport vessels from attack and capture by terrorists, in particular to a section of technology related to the development of methods and means of protecting sea and river cargo ships of an unlimited navigation area on the high seas and in coastal waters from attacks and capture by terrorists in the absence of police officers and other emergency forces.

According to the UN, during 2008 alone, in the “Horn of Africa” area, out of 120 attempts at pirate attacks, 16 resulted in the seizure of transport ships with their crews. As of 2009, there are data on 68 captured vessels, and the forecast for the visible future remains unfavorable. The direct damage in the form of paying a ransom to the pirates for the release of the crews captured by them amounted, according to various estimates, amounts (including indirect costs) to several tens of millions of US dollars.

The closest in technical essence and the achieved result is the system according to the patent of the Russian Federation No. 2432544, based on the use of non-lethal weapons with a long range of use (at least 30 miles from the numbered place of the vessel) and with a large mass of charge of the irritant with the corresponding dimensions of the affected area. The means of protection used against obvious or possible attempts to seize the ship by suspicious persons do not pose a threat to the life of terrorists. In turn, the ship's protective equipment should be used in conjunction with a means of detecting and identifying a potentially dangerous object at an appropriate range. As a result, the actions taken during the defense provide acceptable legal consequences - not only suppressing the obvious, but also preventing the possible attempt of suspicious persons to attack the ship. This problem is solved by installing on a ship and using a reconnaissance-strike complex of weapons (a single universal or conjugated two corresponding purposes) with small-sized remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Use devices with a radius of at least 100 km. Flight duration - from two or more hours at a speed of about 100-150 km / h for reconnaissance and 200-250 km / h for percussion devices. The UAV’s flight height above the sea surface - from 2-3 km to almost “zero” allows them to be used for detection, inspection and attack of a potentially dangerous object, including a single boat, in conditions of extremely limited visibility. So, on a shock UAV, the mass of a combat charge can reach 25 kg or more. For use in this method, the combat charge is replaced with a neutralizing one, transforming the device from a combat weapon to a special one. The mass of the irritant in it, respectively, is two orders of magnitude greater than that in the grenade of the VGM-93.200 shot. In the open sea, reconnaissance of a dangerous area is carried out in the line of sight - up to ± 15 miles (in the sector ± 30 ° at a distance of 30 miles) relative to the ship's track along preliminary laying, directing the device directly to the object detected by the ship's radar or other means. When the vessel is moving in narrowness, reconnaissance of the water area at a given distance from the vessel’s numbered position is carried out on both sides of the channel axis to the coastline or in the line of sight, holding the device at a height that allows the object to be detected under actual weather conditions.

Acting in a similar way, they leave time for additional exploration of the object, classification of it according to the degree of danger, and for adoption, if necessary, of a decision on the preventive use of shock UAVs before the ship and high-speed boats enter mutual direct visibility. So, the resolution of the surveillance equipment on the reconnaissance UAV allows the complex’s operators, performing a covert flight around the detected object at extremely low altitude, to distinguish clearly expressed actions of people, including armed ones, on it. The information obtained is used to justify (together with skippers) further actions in relation to suspicious persons, including the use of an attack UAV.

A percussion device with a specified flight speed already about 15 minutes after detecting an object at a distance of 30 miles can be withdrawn at a minimum height in a stealth attack on an observed target several meters in size. The neutralizing charge device for use on an impact UAV is reproduced similarly, for example, to a VGM-93.200 shot in a grenade, on an appropriate scale. With the same mass-size ratios, the mass of the irritant itself, for example, in a 25-kilogram charge will be up to 6-7 kg - about 100 times more than in a grenade charge. The aerosol cloud formed by such a charge will accordingly provide a neutralizing effect on an area of at least 10,000 m ² and in a volume of at least 30,000 m ³ . For comparison: a group of people on the deck of a trawler with a displacement of up to 400 tons or in several boats moving to intercept a transport vessel, one can imagine the so-called “Reduced target” with dimensions in the plan of up to 40 ÷ 10 m and a height of up to 3 ÷ 5 m. Such an object moving at a speed of 10 ÷ 30 knots, once in a cloud (cloud-curtain) with an affected area of the indicated dimensions, will be in it significantly longer than in the cloud from a grenade. Outside this zone, the effect of the irritant will also not stop "instantly", but will weaken gradually as it moves away from the epicenter of the cloud, leaving the attackers unable to quickly restore normal vision and breathing. Covering the object with a cloud (setting the curtain) provides the necessary combination of parameters of the final section of the vehicle’s trajectory when approaching the target with the range and height of the pre-contact operation of the irritant ejection / spraying device relative to the target. The values of the trajectory parameters at the time of activation of the ejection device are determined by an algorithm similar to the known ones developed for shock UAVs in combat equipment, for example, equipped with a thermobaric warhead and a non-contact fuse with a rangefinder and / or altimeter operating principle.

The minimum height of the final section of the vehicle’s trajectory during a stealth attack of an object is chosen from a condition that excludes direct hit of the UAV fuselage in the target after pre-contact setting of a cloud or cloud-curtain.

Such actions, from making a decision to neutralize an object to selecting the characteristics of the final section of the trajectory of the attacking apparatus and the conditions for covering the target with an aerosol cloud, minimize the possibility and severity of the consequences of errors regarding the true intentions of suspicious persons. That is, when using the proposed method non-traumatic means of non-lethal damage, such an error is acceptable for the upcoming legal consequences. In support of the feasibility of the method, hereinafter, information is given on the possibility of using for this known complexes and samples of UAVs, known vehicles, etc., including with reference to graphic images of the corresponding content.

A technically achievable result is an increase in the effectiveness of the fight against terrorism at water transport facilities.

This is achieved by the fact that in the method of protection against terrorists in water basins, which consists in the fact that a non-lethal means of destruction based on an irritant, such as CS, is installed on a ship in a complex of weapons with unmanned aerial vehicles, both reconnaissance and shock, on an area of at least 10,000 m ² , and also establish a system for reconnaissance of a dangerous area in a line of sight with a width of up to ± 15 miles relative to the ship’s route for preliminary laying, the reconnaissance apparatus is sent directly an object detected by a ship’s radar station, accompanied by a ship’s mobile laptop connected to the GLONASS system, and when the vessel is moving in a narrow area, reconnaissance of the water area is carried out on both sides from the channel axis to the coastline equipped with observation posts if a dangerous object is detected perform the following tactics: they conduct a demonstrative and warning flight around the reconnaissance apparatus of an object classified by the complex’s operators, together with the skippers, as dangerous at the time of detection, carry out a demonstrative warning attack by the percussion apparatus of an object classified as potentially dangerous, with the aerosol cloud being placed at a distance from the object R = 0.5D ± d, where D is the known transverse size of the expanding cloud, after which the inhalation concentration of the irritant becomes portable for a person, and the value of d is the component of the wind drift of the cloud, determined on the spot in the direction of the object or in the opposite, secretive, at the minimum possible height, they carry out an attack with a percussion apparatus of a moving object classified as dangerous, with a cloud of curtains placed in front of it, which prevents the ship from being caught by suspicious persons by their preventive neutralization, a quadcopter with a warhead mounted on it with an irritant weighing up to 2 kg can be used as a UAV quadcopter control can be carried out both from a marine mobile portable computer connected to the GLONASS system, and autonomously from the GLONASS system.

In FIG. Figure 1 shows a fragment on the map of the deployment sites for technical positions for UAV complexes on the coast near a dangerous navigation area, arrows indicate ports located to the north and south of the “African horn”, in FIG. Figure 2 shows the placement of elements of an impact complex, such as a BRAVE-200, in a 40-foot container of a vehicle.

The device for protecting water transport facilities from terrorists contains a strike complex, for example BRAVE-200, located in the vessel’s container, in a 40-foot type 1A container (Fig. 2), containing the container’s body 4 with the control car 1, power unit 2 and launch unit 3 (shown unfolded in the transverse position and removed from the car chassis) and consisting of 15 starting sections, as well as a marine portable computer connected to the GLONASS system and included in the package of the ship’s crew and placed in the cabin a ship or a specially equipped for anti-terrorist purposes cabin (not shown).

Software is installed on a computer connected to the GLONASS system to display electronic maps of a specific terrorist area and, based on the information stored in the database, perform simulation tasks to eliminate the threat of terrorists attacking a ship by using a reconnaissance and strike weapon system (a single universal or mating two appropriate purposes) with small-sized remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Use devices with a radius of at least 100 km. Flight duration - from two or more hours at a speed of about 100-150 km / h for reconnaissance and 200-250 km / h for percussion devices. The UAV’s flight altitude from the sea surface from 2-3 km to almost “zero” allows them to be used for detection, inspection and attack of a potentially dangerous object, including a single boat, in conditions of extremely limited visibility. So, on a shock UAV, the mass of a combat charge can reach 25 kg or more. For use in this method, the combat charge is replaced with a neutralizing one, transforming the device from a combat weapon to a special one. The mass of the irritant in it, respectively, is two orders of magnitude greater than that in the grenade of the VGM-93.200 shot. In the open sea, reconnaissance of a dangerous area is carried out in the line of sight - up to ± 15 miles (in the sector ± 30 ° at a distance of 30 miles) relative to the ship's track along preliminary laying, directing the device directly to the object detected by the ship's radar or other means. When the vessel is moving in narrowness, reconnaissance of the water area at a given distance from the vessel’s numbered position is carried out on both sides of the channel axis to the coastline or in the line of sight, holding the device at a height that allows the object to be detected under actual weather conditions.

As a UAV, a quadcopter can be used with a warhead mounted on it with an irritant weighing up to 2 kg. Quadcopter control can be carried out both from a marine mobile portable computer connected to the GLONASS system, and independently from the GLONASS system.

A method of protecting water transport facilities from terrorists is as follows.

A non-lethal means of destruction based on an irritant, such as CS, is installed on a ship in an armament complex with unmanned aerial vehicles, both reconnaissance and strike, on an area of at least 10,000 m ² , and also establish a system for reconnaissance of a dangerous area in a line of sight with a width of up to ± 15 miles relative to the ship’s pre-routing course. The reconnaissance apparatus is sent directly to the object detected by the ship’s radar station accompanied by the Antiterror hardware-software complex. When the vessel moves in a narrow range, reconnaissance of water is carried out on both sides from the axis of the fairway to the coastline equipped with observation posts equipped with the Antiterror hardware-software complex, while keeping the reconnaissance apparatus at a height that makes it possible to detect the object in actual weather conditions.

If a dangerous object is detected, the following tactics are performed:

1) carry out a demonstrative warning flight around the reconnaissance apparatus of an object classified by the operators of the complex, together with the skippers, as safe at the time of detection,

2) carry out a demonstrative warning attack with the percussion apparatus of an object classified as potentially dangerous, with the aerosol cloud being set up at a distance from the object R = 0.5D ± d, where D is the known transverse size of the expanding cloud, after which the inhalation concentration of the irritant becomes tolerable human, and the value of d is the component of the wind drift of the cloud, determined on the spot in the direction of the object or in the opposite, secretive, at the minimum possible height,

3) carry out an attack with the percussion apparatus of a moving object classified as dangerous, with a cloud of curtains placed in front of it, preventing the ship from being captured by suspicious persons by their preventive neutralization.

The system of protection of a sea transport vessel from terrorists contains a non-lethal means of destruction based on an irritant, such as CS, installed on a ship in an armament complex with unmanned aerial vehicles, both reconnaissance and strike, on an area of at least 10,000 m ² , a system for reconnaissance of a dangerous area in a strip line of sight with a width of up to ± 15 miles relative to the ship's route along the preliminary laying.

The software of the ship’s mobile portable computer connected with the GLONASS system provides full information support for emergencies related to explosions, hijacking of a vessel, from the moment the emergency is registered and removed from control.

Structurally and functionally, the main elements of the system are not associated with a carrier vessel. They are loaded onto a vessel only on a voyage through dangerous areas of navigation and placed on it as adjacent cargo places or as a single enlarged cargo place, placing them on one platform or in one container, for example, in a 40-foot standard container type 1A with dimensions 12, 2 × 2.4 × 2.4 m (Fig. 2). To reduce (with an unchanged number of equipped vessels) the total number of complexes used and possible losses on a specific vessel of actual cargo spaces, the complex is loaded onto the vessel at its port in the port closest to the dangerous navigation area, with its subsequent transfer to the vessel designated for departure direction. In port territories of an appropriate location, for example, in the “Horn of Africa” region shown in FIG. 1, deploy technical positions-bases equipped with a hardware-software complex for operational communication and decision-making in case of hijacking and implementation of preventive measures, as well as keeping the used systems in good and operational condition, up to the transfer (transshipment of goods) to the next (for example , duty) ship. Here, the post of an international or national authority for monitoring the use of non-lethal equipment on drone UAVs, for example, a CS type irritant, can also be placed here. The location of the position in the port is chosen based on the delivery of the used systems by regular or attracted transport to the operating area, directly to a specific section of the cargo mooring front, without hauling or re-mooring the vessel. If there is a technical and organizational possibility, by agreement between the consignor, the consignee and the carrier, the complex is transferred, like transshipment of cargo, in the direct version - directly from ship to ship.

In terms of total weight and dimensions for installation on a vessel with a “package in a container”, for example, the tactical complex BRAVE-200 with non-returnable UAVs of shock version 151 is suitable. The overall dimensions of the UCGN-121A UAV in the starting position (with the wing folded) are 2.12 × 0 61 × 2.60 m. The transport and launch unit of the complex, assembled from 15 starting sections, is installed on the chassis of the M35 series car with a plan size of 7.3 × 2.4 m, with a lifting capacity of 2.5 tons. The control unit is placed in a body- a van mounted on the chassis of a HUMMER military vehicle, in dimensions 4.7 × 2.2 × 2.1 m, ruzopodemnostyu 1.1 m. Special power supply control apparatus and starters in the field provided towed (portable) power unit. The container is installed on the deck or in the cargo (container) stack, orienting the open wall and the exits of the starting sections into the free space, for example, on the beam. If necessary, removable or portable ladders are used to access operators to the complex. Or all the elements of the complex are placed separately as “piece goods”, and only the launch units are properly oriented. The remaining elements of the complex can be placed among other packages arbitrarily - as far as the length of the connecting cables allows. The option of loading “single loads” of single launchers can be accepted, for example, when using a complex with a Locus strike UAV. The mass-sized characteristics of this device and its transport and launch container are comparable with those of the UCGA-121A UAV and its launch section in the transport and launch unit of the BRAVE-200 complex. The use of a complex with single launches may be preferable if the required ammunition is limited to a few devices, as well as during cargo handling at intermediate berths, with the necessary change in starting positions. Obviously, several Locus UAV launch containers can, in turn, be assembled into a single launch position - “enlarged cargo area”, for example, also in a 20-foot container.

To carry out reconnaissance functions and demonstrative warning flights around objects, it is possible to use, for example, a specialized complex with returnable devices, such as a Sprite RPH mini-helicopter with a take-off mass of 36 kg and with a horizontal projection in the form of a circle with a diameter of 1.6 m (on the rotor). With such dimensions and weight, it can be placed on any free platform, including the roof of the container with an impact complex. In normal mode, such devices are used for reconnaissance of “targets of the battlefield,” such as small military units, single vehicles, firing points, etc. The flight of the device is controlled from a portable remote control. The time spent in the air of a Sprite RPH helicopter, at a flight speed of 110 km / h at altitudes of up to 3 km, is about 2 hours. Therefore, for continuous monitoring of the abovementioned area of the water area, it is enough to use 2-3 vehicles alternately. The dimensions and the total mass of vehicles with a fuel supply (6 kg per refueling) remain negligible to account for them as separate packages.

Claims (2)

1. A method of protection against terrorists in water basins, consisting in the fact that a non-lethal means of destruction based on an irritant, such as CS, is installed on a ship in an armament complex with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), both reconnaissance and strike, on an area of at least 10,000 m ² , and also establish a system for reconnaissance of a dangerous area in a line of sight with a width of up to ± 15 miles relative to the ship's route along preliminary laying, characterized in that the reconnaissance device is sent directly to the object detected by the ship’s radar station when escorted from the ship’s mobile laptop connected to the GLONASS system, and when the vessel is moving in a narrow area, reconnaissance of the water area is carried out on both sides of the fairway axis to the coastline equipped with observation posts if a dangerous object is detected perform the following tactics: they conduct a demonstrative and warning flight around the reconnaissance UAVs of the facility, classified by the operators of the complex together with the skippers as safe at the moment of detection, they carry out a demonstrative warning attack by an UAV of an object classified as potentially dangerous, with the aerosol cloud being set up at a distance from the object R = 0.5D ± d, where D is the known transverse size of the expanding aerosol cloud, after which the inhalation concentration the irritant becomes tolerable to humans, and the value of d is the locally determined component of the wind drift of the aerosol cloud in the direction of the object or in the opposite, secretive, at the minimum possible altitude, they carry out an attack UAV attack of a moving object classified as dangerous, with a cloud-curtain placed in front of it, which prevents the ship from being caught by suspicious persons by their preventive neutralization. 2. The method of protection against terrorists in water basins according to claim 1, characterized in that a quadcopter with a warhead mounted on it with an irritant weighing up to 2 kg can be used as a UAV, and the quadcopter can be controlled from a ship’s mobile laptop computer, associated with the GLONASS system, and autonomously from the GLONASS system.

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