RU31844U1 - Unified combat module - Google Patents

Description

UNIFIED BATTLE MODULE

The utility model relates to armored vehicles and can be used in the manufacture of tanks, multipurpose combat vehicles and other objects designed to carry out a combat mission by firing targets from various types of weapons under the direct fire exposure of enemy antitank weapons.

Known tower armored personnel carrier (see Patent of the Russian Federation No. RU 2086892 C1, CL F 41 H 5/20. From 08/26/91, Bull. No. 22), considered as an analogue.

The armored personnel carrier tower contains a cap made in the form of a truncated cone, bounded by a front slice and a roof, with weapons installed in it on a support with a cradle. Two vertical racks are fixed on the cap, in which the bearing supports of the cradle are placed, in which replaceable landing elements are installed to secure various types of weapons. The tower is equipped with a cradle for additional weapons mounted on the end of the right bearing support. The tower is made with the possibility of installing removable, appropriate type of weapon, stores, supply paths of ammunition and taps.

The combat compartment of the T-72A tank is known (see T-72A Tank, Technical Description and Operating Instructions, Book 2, Part 1, Military Publishing House, Moscow, 1988), selected as a prototype.

The fighting compartment contains a cast tower of circular rotation, of complex shape with walls of differentiated thickness, closed on top of the armored roof. An embrasure was made in the bow of the tower, in which the main weapon was installed - a 125 mm cannon, and an additional 7.62 mm machine gun with a magazine and a power path was fixed on it. The tower has a periscope gunner’s sight with a warhead located on the roof of the tower. The tower is attached to the hull of the tank using the bearing support shoulder strap.

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The tank gun store (rotating conveyor of the automatic loader) with a roof (flooring) is also installed in the tank body on a bearing support fixed to the bottom of the body and connected to the turret by a lever with a leash. The power supply path of the main armament, including the cartridge lifting mechanism and rammer, is mounted on the tower.

The fire control system provides stabilization of the main and additional weapons of the tower and sight line of sight. In this case, the rotation of the main and additional weapons in the vertical plane is carried out using a vertical guidance drive installed in the tower, and the rotation of the tower with the main and additional weapons in the horizontal plane around the vertical axis is provided in the main mode of stabilized guidance due to the hydromechanical rotation mechanism of the tower, fixed in tank body. Some elements of the fire control system, including a voltage converter, are also located in the tank body. The fire control system ensures the operation of only a certain type of primary and secondary weapon - a 125 mm gun and 7.62 mm machine gun and ammunition of a limited nomenclature for them.

A rotating contact device that provides power to the tower’s electrical equipment and control commands to drive the tower’s horizontal guidance is mounted on the bottom of the tank’s hull, under a rotating conveyor.

The disadvantages of the prototype are:

1Large laboriousness in the repair of combat damage. In case of damage to the main weapon or tower in the area of its attachment, it is necessary to dismantle or replace the tower. Replacement of the tower is also required for the analogue in case of damage to the racks, including in the area of the bearing supports of the arms cradle.

2 The difficulty of replacing weapons in the modernization process due to the need to replace elements of the fire control system (LMS), for example, sights, or the entire LMS simultaneously with weapons. In addition, the use of ammunition that differs from previously used ballistic characteristics requires a simultaneous change in the LMS.

3 The inability of the fighting compartment to be installed on any vehicle that has a constant electric current source, the required dimensions and the corresponding carrying capacity. The fighting compartment is not a complete assembly unit, cannot be mounted and debugged separately from the accommodation facility and requires refinement of the housing of the deployment facility.

. The objectives of this utility model are: to reduce the complexity of work when repairing combat damage and upgrading weapons and to facilitate the installation of a unified combat module on any vehicles that have a constant electric current source, the required dimensions and the corresponding carrying capacity.

These goals are achieved:

-placing the main and additional weapons and fire control systems, turret rotation mechanisms, weapon stores, electrical equipment, a rotating contact device inside a unified combat module.

- use in the design of the module of the removable block of remote weapons, including vertical racks with the main weapon and removable stand-alone drives of additional weapons. This allows for combat damage or modernization to replace either the entire weapon block with racks, or, individually, the primary or secondary weapon.

-the use of a fire control system with an information-control complex, made with the possibility of ensuring the operation of any number of types of primary and secondary weapons, but at least four, without restrictions on the type of weapon. Such an information-control complex allows changing the control program of the corresponding weapon unit when replacing types, types of weapons or the ammunition used by them, without requiring the replacement of sights or blocks of FCS.

Distinctive features are:

-use of a removable block of weapons;

fire control system, control of any number of types of primary and secondary weapons, but not less than four, without type restrictions;

- placement of all elements of the fire control system, turret rotation mechanism, electrical equipment and a rotating contact device as part of a unified combat module, made in the form of a monoblock;

the implementation of a monoblock with the ability to attach shoulder straps and a rotating contact device to any vehicle that has a constant electric current source, the required dimensions and the corresponding load capacity.

When studying other technical solutions in this technical field, the totality of features that distinguishes the claimed utility model is not identified. This allows us to conclude that the claimed utility model has novelty and does not follow explicitly from the existing level of technology.

The utility model can be used in the manufacture of turrets of tanks, multipurpose combat vehicles and other objects intended to perform a combat mission by firing targets from various types of weapons under the direct fire exposure of enemy anti-tank weapons.

The proposed utility model is presented in the drawing, where Fig. 1 shows a longitudinal section of a unified combat module.

The unified combat module contains an armored turret 1 having security at the level of defense of the turret of the main battle tank, made in the form of a prism limited by the side walls and roof 2. The epaulette 3 and the turret rotation mechanism 4 are bolted to the bottom of the turret 1. Shoulder strap 3 is equipped with docking devices, for example, blind threaded holes. In the aft part of the roof 2 is detachable, for example, with bolts 5, a block of remote weapons 6 is fixed, having two vertical posts 7 on which bearing bearings 8 of the cradle 9 are placed. In the cradle 9 there is a replaceable main weapon 10. On each rack 7 there are independent drives 11 additional weapons 12. At the ends of the shafts of the drives 11 are made flanges 13 for mounting the cradles 14 of the replaceable additional weapons 12. Inside one of the racks

7, a drive 15 for vertical guidance of the cradle 9 is installed. 9. A sight 16 is installed on the roof 2. Inside the block 6 of the removed weapon and the struts 7, the cradle 9 is equipped with paths 17 for supplying ammunition 18 for weapons 10. Ammunition 18 is fixed in tapes that are placed inside the tower 1 in the store 19. Inside the tower is also placed electrical equipment 20, a fire control system, including an information-control complex, consisting of video viewing devices 21, control panels 22, signal processing units from sensors 23 and a ballistic computer 24, power a transverse beam 25, on which a voltage amplifier 26, a voltage converter 27, and a rotating contact device 28, for connecting electrical equipment 20 to the vehicle’s on-board direct current network, are mounted.

Unified combat module works as follows. Depending on the nature of the combat missions performed, the appropriate composition of the primary and secondary weapons 10 and 12 and the ammunition for it are selected. Weapons 10 installed in the cradle 9 are replaced. Cradles 14 with additional arms 12 selected for solving this set of tasks are installed on the flanges 13. The information management system of the fire control system is configured using software methods for interaction with selected types and types of weapons.

In case of combat damage or modernization, the repair of a unified

the combat module is produced by replacing the damaged ones: block 6 of the removed weapon, cradle 9, autonomous drives 11 or cradles 14.

The unified combat module can be installed on any vehicle that has an electric current source, the required dimensions and the corresponding carrying capacity. Shoulder strap 3 is equipped with docking devices, and electrical equipment 20 is connected to the vehicle's on-board direct current network using the rotating contact device 28 installed in the module.

Utility Model Formula UNIFIED BATTLE MODULE

1. A unified combat module containing an armored turret that is protected at the level of defense of the turret of the main battle tank, with a sight mounted on the roof of the turret and a remote weapon unit, including two vertical racks with weapons placed on a nickname, shoulder strap with turret turning mechanism, shops and tracts weapons supply, fire control system with an information-control complex, electrical equipment with a rotating contact device, characterized in that it is made in the form of a monoblock with the ability to install and by means of a shoulder strap and a rotating contact device for any vehicle that has a constant electric current source, the required dimensions and the corresponding carrying capacity, while the remote weapon unit is removable.

2. The unified combat module according to claim 1, characterized in that the delivered weapon base is capable of installing various types and types of weapons, and the information-control complex of the fire control system - with the ability to configure it to control any number of weapons, but not less four, without restrictions on the type of weapon.

Claims (2)

1. A unified combat module containing an armored turret that is protected at the level of defense of the turret of the main battle tank, with a sight mounted on the roof of the turret and a remote weapon unit including two vertical racks with weapons placed on them, shoulder strap with turret turning mechanism, shops and tracts weapons supply, fire control system with an information-control complex, electrical equipment with a rotating contact device, characterized in that it is made in the form of a monoblock with the ability to install and by rotating and overhead contact device on any vehicle having a source of direct electric current corresponding to the required size and capacity, and the block rendered weapon is removable. 2. The unified combat module according to claim 1, characterized in that the weapon block is made with the possibility of installing various types and types of weapons, and the information-control complex of the fire control system - with the ability to configure it to control any number of weapons, but not less four, without restrictions on the type of weapon.