RU2721022C1 - Method of protecting movable technical objects during movement in a column - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: vehicles.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to vehicles and complexes as false targets or vehicles-victims or means of protection of convoys with escort. Method of mobile technical objects protection during movement in a column provides for joint movement of a column of protected technical object (5) and at least three false targets (1–4, 6, 7). Latter imitate protected object (5) by disabling reproduction of features that reveal objects (5) and/or initiate external means of its destruction. Without changing the sequence of sequence numbers or in addition to regrouping, at least once, disabling or switching on display of the unseen attributes of false targets (1–4, 6, 7) in the specified or arbitrary sequence of sequence numbers in the column. Additional features of the method are availability of at least two false targets with permanently enabled display of the tell-tale signs in front of protected object (5) and maintenance of the total number of false targets unchanged on the whole route of movement in the column with included playing of the tell-tale signs.

EFFECT: enabling expansion of tactical and technical capabilities, higher safety of protected object (5).

3 cl, 1 dwg

Description

The invention relates to military and special equipment, namely to:

- vehicles and complexes as false targets or victim vehicles (self-propelled or attached to vehicles;

- camouflage, that is, means of shelter or camouflage;

- means of clearing land minefields, techniques for counteracting remotely automatic non-contact means of destruction, in particular anti-tank and anti-helicopter mines;

- means of protection for tuples with an escort.

In well-known ways to ensure the safety of strategically and tactically important technical facilities (self-propelled missile launchers, staff vehicles) and vehicles with VIPs / clients as part of escort tuples, the security of these protected technical facilities (including protection against sniper fire, from remotely triggered automatic non-contact weapons, in particular anti-tank mines) provide the following set of measures:

- visual-optical imitation of the protected object (“target”) by other moving objects - false targets (including escort guarding vehicles), which gives rise to an outside observer / intruder) uncertainty about the true serial number of the protected object (“target”) location in the column;

- periodic regrouping by an object in the column, leading to a change in the hidden serial number of the protected object (“target”), which is accompanied by overtaking and / or lagging of false targets in relation to the protected object (naturally for regrouping, with temporary splitting of the line of the column), moving security objects - false targets from head to tail of the column and vice versa;

- performing at least one guard object (“kamikaze object”) in the head of the column the function of the initiator of the operation of probable means of destruction along the route of the column.

Such an analogue method is described, in particular, in information sources [1. L. Thompson. VIP person and car escort (Chapter 8). URL: https://bezpekavip.com/glava-8 (Date posted October 30, 2018; Date accessed August 23, 2019); 2. Andrey Shikin. Constructing cars as part of a tuple. URL: http://www.spzs.ru/sites/www.spzs.ru/files/statya_shikina_1.pdf (Date of access 08.23.2019)].

For all its practical usefulness, this method of ensuring security has the following disadvantages:

- the regrouping of moving objects in the convoy is not always possible on all or part of the route for reasons insufficient for the spatial maneuver of the width of the road, the presence of oncoming traffic or the physical condition of the curbs;

- the regrouping can be monitored by an outside observer / intruder continuously throughout the entire section of the column, which can lead to "decryption" of the true location of the protected (guarded) object in the column;

- as a rule, only visual-optical and acoustic unmasking signs of the protected object are imitated by using externally similar or identical vehicle brands;

- the presence of people (driver and security) in security facilities - false targets, sharply reduces the likelihood of survival of these "professional kamikaze", despite the specifics of their profession.

The closest analogue (prototype) for the purpose (scope) and the set of essential features (sequence of actions) to the claimed method is (adopted) a method of protecting mobile technical objects when moving in a column, providing for the joint movement of a protected technical object and at least three false goals that mimic the protected object by turning off the reproduction of signs that unmask the object and / or initiate third-party means of destruction [3. RU 2697932 C1, IPC (2011.01) F41H 11/32, 08.21.2019].

It is designed to protect mobile technical objects through the use of remote simulators of targets, provoking mines to fire on them. At the same time, all physical fields created by the guarded object are simulated simultaneously by modular application of disconnected physical field simulation devices on one platform, which is towed by the carrier at a safe distance for it (in accordance with IPC F41H 11/32).

However, in the prototype method, with all its positive aspects (especially limited, but still “protection by distance” of the crews of the towing modules of the simulators, and the complexity of the simulation), most of these shortcomings remain, primarily the costs of the need for rearrangements to introduce an outside observer / the attacker is misleading regarding the true current number of the protected object in the column.

The task to be solved by the claimed method of protecting mobile technical objects during movement in a convoy is to expand the tactical and technical (protective) capabilities, increase the security (effectiveness of camouflage and mine protection) of the protected object through the use of other imitation tactics (“military trick”) - to replace rearrangements or in addition to it.

The solution to this problem is ensured by the fact that in the method of protecting mobile technical objects during movement in a column, which involves the joint movement of a column of a protected technical object and at least three false targets that mimic a protected object by disabling the reproduction of signs that unmask the object and / or initiate third-party means of defeating him, characterized in that, without changing the order of the sequence numbers, that is, without rearrangement in the column, or in addition to rearrangement, at least once disable or enable the reproduction of unmasking signs of false targets in a given or arbitrary sequence of sequence numbers in the column.

A number of private sets of essential features of the method are also aimed at solving the problem, within the framework of the main set of its features formulated in the previous paragraph and in the claims, namely:

- at least two false targets can be provided with constantly playing back unmasking signs in front of the protected object (this additionally increases the security of the protected object when third-party observer / intruder uses mines along the route of the column, programmed and reprogrammed as the column is preliminarily monitored, to trigger on the object with the first or second serial number in the column);

- the total number of false targets in the column with the reproduction of unmasking signs enabled can be kept constant along the entire route of movement (this additionally enhances the tactical and technical result of using the invention, reducing the likelihood of unwanted detection of the fact of using the proposed method).

Implementation (implementation) of the proposed method of evacuation is possible both by the use of known devices (material objects), as well as new ones, which differ from the currently available small changes (upgrades), which, on the one hand, can obviously be followed by specialists from the modern level of technology, and on the other hand, through essentially new devices at the level of inventions and utility models.

In any case, the claimed method represents certain actions (operations) on tangible objects (guarded and guarding movable objects - false targets by means of material means - imitators), which defines the claimed intellectual property as an object of the invention.

The drawing shows an example of a diagram of the implementation of the proposed method, a special case of movement (from left to right) of seven movable technical objects, including a protected object (for example, a rocket launcher or a staff vehicle) and six false targets, into a column without rearrangements, where the circle indicates the object with the simulation turned off unmasking signs, a circle with a cross — an object with imitation of unmasking signs turned on, a circle with a cross and a bullet — a protected object with unmasking signs, which actually takes the fifth place in the column (from its head); T1, T2, T3 - periods of movement of the column at three different sections of the route; No. 3, 4, 5 - simulated sequence numbers of the protected object in the column (according to the "picture" for an outside observer and / or probable mines along the column); 1-7 are the position numbers of the seven moving objects referred to as constituting a column.

For the implementation of the proposed method can be used, for example, a set of devices used in the prototype method (see source [3]).

A prerequisite for this is the technical ability to quickly, during the movement of the column, turn on and off the modules-simulators 1-4, 5, 6 of the reproduction of signs that unmask the object and / or initiate third-party means of destruction. Such unmasking signs may include visual-optical signature, as a rule, with identifiers such as dimensions, shape, color, acoustic characteristics, thermal radiation, magnetic fields, etc., and in one or another combination of them ("complex simulators"). The industrial applicability of such funds is not in doubt.

The inventive method of protecting mobile technical objects during movement in a column provides for the joint movement of a protected technical object 5 and at least three false targets 1-4, 6, 7 (in this example there are six of them (No. 1, 2, 3, 4) , 6, 7). The latter imitate the protected object 5 by switching off the reproduction of signs unmasking object 5 and / or initiating third-party means of destruction (not shown).

According to the invention, without changing the order of the sequence numbers (see drawing), that is, without rearrangement in the column, or in addition to rearrangement, at least once (and in the example given, twice) selectively switch (disable or enable) the reproduction of unmasking signs of false goals 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 in a given or arbitrary sequence of sequence numbers in the column.

The minimum number of false targets “three” is explained by inexpediency, firstly, their movements both in front of and behind the object 5, and secondly - the ability to “take over” the actuation of a mine, configured not only to “first actuation”, but and with delayed response to the second number in the column.

The solution of the problem (technical result) is also achieved due to the claimed additional essential features of the method with the above set of basic essential features (operations).

The first additional features of the method are the presence of at least two false targets with constantly included reproduction of unmasking signs in front of the protected object. In the example in the figure there are three, two and four, respectively, in three consecutive stages: in periods T1, T2 and TK.

The second additional feature of the method is the maintenance of the total number of false targets 1-4, 6, 7 with the reproduction of unmasking signs unchanged along the entire route of movement in the column. In this example, there are four of them in all three selected stages - T1, T2 and T3.

Due to this, only due to on-off manipulations in various combinations of simulators of false targets, the protected object is hidden behind the fourth, third and fifth from the head of the column in the imitated “picture”. That in the prototype it was possible to achieve only by a spatial regrouping of objects 1-7 (which would not always be possible according to the characteristics of the area, longer, fraught with the costs of maneuvers, and also noticeable when viewed from the side (monitoring of satellite and / or other) column movement.

Thus, the use of the proposed method allows to expand the tactical and technical (protective) capabilities, to increase the security (the effectiveness of camouflage and mine protection) of the protected object, through the use of other imitation tactics ("military tricks") - to replace regroupings or in addition to it.

Moreover, the method does not require any significant financial, material, technical and time costs, which further increases its value.

The method can be used both to replace the prototype method (instead of it), and in addition to it.

Claims (3)

1. A method of protecting movable technical objects when moving in a column, providing for the joint movement of a protected technical object by a column and at least three false targets that mimic the protected object by disabling the reproduction of signs that unmask the object and / or initiating third-party means of defeating it, characterized in that without changing the order of the sequence numbers, that is, without rearrangement in the column, or in addition to rearrangement, at least once they disable or enable the playback of unmasking signs of false targets in a given or arbitrary sequence of sequence numbers in the column. 2. The protection method according to claim 1, characterized in that at least two false targets are provided with the reproduction of unmasking signs in front of the protected object being constantly on. 3. The method of protection according to claim 1, characterized in that the total number of false targets in the column with the playback of unmasking signs enabled is kept constant along the entire route of movement.

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