RU77414U1 - CONTAINER FOR TRANSPORTATION AND LAYOUT OF AMMUNITION - Google Patents

Abstract

The container is intended for storage, transportation and layout of smoke bombs, installation of anti-tank, anti-personnel and anti-airborne mines and other means of destruction and counteraction to the enemy using one mechanized vehicle. The container contains a device for placing ammunition and a mechanism for supplying ammunition (9) to the sending line. A feature of the container is the modular design of the device for placing ammunition, as well as the availability of fundamentally new components: a device for dispatching ammunition (26), equipped with an information reader (34) from electronic contactless ammunition chips (35), and a device for laying out ammunition (36). The container provides transportation of ammunition to the place of hostilities and their layout according to a given algorithm. The container is controlled by an industrial controller (37) installed in the cockpit of a combat vehicle (18). The container capacity is at least 300 smoke bombs. 1 wpp, 7 ill.

Description

The proposed utility model relates to the means of engineering weapons, namely to the construction of containers, and can be used for storage, transportation and layout of smoke bombs designed to solve the problems of aerosol masking of troops, as well as for the installation of anti-tank, anti-personnel and anti-landing mines and other weapons and counteracting the adversary, for example, biological, nuclear or chemical, with a single mechanized vehicle.

One of the means of creating smoke screens designed to mask the actions of troops is smoke bombs, which can be used to set up masking smoke screens, either manually or using mechanization tools, such as mine barriers or helicopter mines. However, for the layout of smoke bombs using these means, they must have a body whose dimensions are identical to the corresponding body of an anti-tank mine. From the patent literature there are various designs of mine loaders and other military vehicles and vehicles that incorporate special compartments, stackings, container blocks or cluster modules designed to place mines. We will consider some of them as analogues of the proposed utility model.

Known articulated mine layer [see RF patent No. 2206046, IPC 7 F41H 7/10, publ. 2003.10.29], which is designed for remote installation of minefields and making passages in them. The mine layer is a self-propelled gun and contains three armored sections: a central one, located between two motor-transmission

sections in limbo, a front engine-transmission section equipped with an operator compartment with a main minefield installation control panel and a tramline mine trawl, and a rear engine-transmission section containing an operator compartment with a redundant minefield installation control panel and a bulldozer equipment. The central section is equipped with a mine compartment with mines with the possibility of their automatic sequential firing of cartridges and retractable rollers to move it.

A mine layer is also known [see RF patent No. 2092772, IPC 6 F41H 7/10, publ. 1997.10.10], which can be used in defense technology in the design and manufacture of land-based mobile remote mining systems. The mine layer is made on a self-propelled chassis with a bearing, armored, displacement body, in which a lift is mounted with a mining unit mounted on it. On the rotary platform of the mining installation on the sliders, a container for cassettes with mines is installed, consisting of two flat articulated blocks on top. The turntable is equipped with a double crank mechanism, pivotally connected to the bases of the blocks and setting the elevation angle of the cartridges with mines by sliding the bases of the blocks from the vertical transport position.

A well-known universal mine layer [see RF patent No. 2009442, IPC 7 F41H 7/10 ,. publ. 1994.03.15], designed for the remote installation of anti-tank, anti-personnel and anti-landing minefields from cluster mines. The mine layer contains a base machine, special equipment and an auxiliary device. Special equipment includes a frame with six bases fixed to the cargo platform of the base machine. Each base is equipped with a support plate, rotatable relative to the vertical axis and inclined to the horizon, to which

a container block having contact sockets for 30 mine cassettes is rigidly fixed. Container blocks - detachable, consist of two parts and are equipped with guides and locking locks for rigid connection of both parts of container blocks. Auxiliary equipment includes a jib crane mounted on the base machine, and a grip with a cable "spider" designed to reload container blocks.

A well-known universal mine layer [see RF patent No. 2185590, IPC 7 F41H 7/10, publ. 2002.07.20], which contains a base machine with a mine compartment, which houses a frame with base plates for cassette modules, a mining control system and a loading device. The base machine is crawler-mounted, and the mine compartment is equipped with an armored protective roof with drop-down wings and a frame made in the form of a rotor mounted in it by means of bearings along the longitudinal axis of the machine with the possibility of rotation and kinematically connected with the chassis of the base machine. Base plates with cassette modules rigidly fixed on them are placed on the rotor. The mining control system is equipped with mining and firing control panels, master and distribution blocks and rotating contact devices. The loading device is equipped with a template for orienting the cassette modules and is made in the form of a folding rotary jib with a tongs and cable “spider”, the slings of which are made of the same length. Base plates are located on the rotor in several transverse rows evenly around the circumference. Distribution blocks and firing control panels of the mining control system are fixed on the rotor. The mining control system is additionally equipped with a locking system to prevent unauthorized shooting of ammunition outside the combat sector and with the roof shutters closed.

As follows from the above descriptions of the containers that the well-known mine detectors are equipped with, the features of their designs are determined primarily by their purpose: they are all designed for remote installation of minefields. The container blocks of well-known mine loaders have very complex designs. In addition, to ensure their operation requires special equipment and many auxiliary devices (for example, locking devices, transmissions, jib cranes, gripping devices, etc.).

Thus, it is not rational to use containers of mine layers, the main purpose of which is remote mining, for laying out smoke bombs, as well as biological, nuclear or chemical weapons of destruction of the enemy. It should also be emphasized that the layout of the ammunition referred to in the proposed utility model should be based on the information received and in accordance with pre-calculated coordinates, which are determined individually in each case based on a number of parameters.

As analogues of the claimed utility model should also consider armored vehicles designed for the transport of various goods, equipment and personnel. It is known, for example, a vehicle with an armored hull [see RF patent No. 2227891, IPC 7 F41H 7/00, publ. 2004.04.27], which is intended for the transport of goods, including equipment and personnel, as well as the mechanization of loading and unloading. The essence of the invention lies in the fact that in the front of the case there are additional windows with bullet-proof glasses, doors on its sides, and a hatch with a periscope viewing device on the roof. A metal container attached to the bottom is installed inside the body, a fuel tank, an electric fuel pump, an electrovalve and an injector mounted at the outlet are connected in series

engine manifold, piping system with sprayers, laid on shelves outside the housing and under the bottom. Outside, smoke bombs are installed on the roof of the hull and on the bottom. At workplaces of crew members, gas masks are provided. A block has been introduced to automatically turn on a radio station for transmission with a tape recorder. However, as follows from the description of the patent, the metal container of the machine is designed to transport valuables, and smoke bombs located on the bottom and on the roof of the hull serve only to protect (mask) the crew of the machine itself.

There are also a number of stowages and containers that are designed specifically for the placement, storage and transportation of ammunition in vehicles.

Known laying for ammunition on a vehicle [see RF patent No. 2081390, IPC 6 F42B 39/28, publ. 1997.06.10], which can be used, for example, for transporting smoke bombs. Using each of them in turn, you can significantly increase the duration of the masking smoke screen. Stacking is made in the form of a series of cartridges mounted on the base of the vehicle, and contains detachable elements for attaching and dumping ammunition. The base with cartridges for ammunition is placed on both sides of the vehicle. Limiters are made on the outer end sides of the cartridges, and detachable elements are installed diametrically opposite from above and below, and in the place of the upper connector there is an element for attaching the cartridge to the base, and an ammunition discharge mechanism from below. The ammunition is discharged from the system for detonating the squibs using an electric pulse, the squib explodes and ejects the retainer rod from the hollow cylinders, as a result of which the ammunition falls to the ground under the action of gravity.

The effectiveness of the known laying for ammunition is very low. This is due to the fact that the amount of ammunition (smoke bombs)

transported by a vehicle, it is limited by the fact that each ammunition (smoke bomb) is located in an individual cartridge equipped with its own ammunition discharge mechanism. In addition, the direction of the release of ammunition is an uncontrolled process, since the ammunition falls on the ground under the influence of gravity.

A container for storing and transporting large-caliber ammunition is known, comprising a detachable body, on the bottom of which a projectile is mounted, and a fixing insert mounted in the middle of the container body [see Germany application: DE 19514988, class F42B 39/00, F42B 39/24, publ. 1996-10-31]. The known container is designed to store and transport only one shell (ammunition) of a certain caliber, the scope of use of this container is very limited, which is its very significant drawback.

An ammunition container is also known, comprising a detachable body, in which there are cells for installing ammunition, and elastic elements interacting with the bottom parts of the ammunition are installed in the bottom of the container body [see France application:

FR 2623611, CL F42B 39/00, publ. 1989-05-26]. When storing ammunition or transporting it, the container is closed by a lid, to which the upper parts of the ammunition are elastically pressed. Several ammunition can be installed in the container body of the design described above, however, the fixing of ammunition in the container body with the help of an elastic element and a lid is not reliable enough, since it cannot provide a stable position of the ammunition during its transportation. In addition, the scope of use of this container is also very limited, since its design is adapted for storage and transportation of ammunition of only a certain caliber.

A container is known in which the scope of use is significantly expanded [see RF patent No. 2154253, IPC 7 F42B 39/26, publ. 2000.08.10]. The design of the container allows installation (by

selection of the appropriate pallet and clamp) in one case of products of a wide range of sizes with a minimum amount of adjustment work, which significantly expands the scope of use of the container. The container contains a detachable housing in which interchangeable elements for installation and fixation of products are located. The pallet for installing products is fixed on the bottom of the body by means of threaded ends of the studs, at the opposite ends of which a clamp with clamping elements is installed. Each clamping element is made in the form of a stop connected to a screw mounted on the clamp with the possibility of reciprocating movement and fixing. Fittings are installed on the container body: for pressurizing air into the container body, for taking air samples from the container body, for checking the tightness of the container seal. The design of the container allows you to expand its operational and technological capabilities by using it to store ammunition of various sizes and properties, including chemical ammunition. Thus, the design of the container provides reliable fixation of products in the container body, as well as the installation of containers in several tiers during storage and, most importantly, during transportation. However, despite the undoubted advantages of the design of this container, it cannot be adapted for storing and transporting ammunition such as smoke bombs, anti-personnel and anti-landing mines and other means of defeating the enemy.

In addition, in all the above-described designs of piling and containers, there are no means that ensure unloading and layout of the ammunition that they carry, which is a significant drawback of all the considered designs of piling and containers, limiting their functionality.

Also known installation for a complete set of modular propelling charges [see Utility Model Certificate of the Russian Federation No. 17608, IPC 7

F41A 9/00, publ. 2001.04.10], which relates to the field of artillery weapons and can be used in the mechanisms for supplying ammunition in automatic self-propelled rapid-firing installations. However, despite the fact that this unit is intended for use in artillery, in its technical essence it is the closest to the claimed container, and therefore it is selected as a prototype.

A well-known installation for picking modular propelling charges contains a magazine, which is a device for placing ammunition, which is divided into rows. In each of the rows there are modular propelling charges (MMZ). The installation also contains a mechanism for transferring the MMZ to a line directed towards the working area (a device for supplying ammunition to the sending line). A feature of the installation is that the device for placing ammunition (store) is made in the form of a set of parallel parallel independent continuous step conveyors with cells for single MMZ. One row of cells, one cell for each independent continuous step conveyor, located inside the store on one line directed towards the working area, that is, the sending line, is made up of empty cells. All independent continuous stepping conveyors also perform the function of the MMZ transmission mechanism to the line directed towards the working area.

The known installation has an undoubted advantage, which consists in increasing the efficiency of the process of supplying ammunition from the place of their storage to the working area. However, despite this advantage, the analyzed technical solution, selected as a prototype, has a number of significant drawbacks. First of all, it is the high laboriousness and time-consuming process of loading the unit with ammunition, which is carried out by turning each conveyor manually by one step until all cells of all conveyors are completely filled, except for those cells that must remain empty. In addition, despite the presence of a control system in a known installation,

which generates signals for the supply of a specific ammunition (MMW) to the appropriate cell of the device for placing ammunition (store), the system does not provide for the possibility of unloading and layout of ammunition according to a predetermined algorithm in accordance with pre-calculated coordinates.

The objective of the utility model is to expand the functionality of the device while increasing its efficiency.

To solve these problems, a container for transportation and layout of ammunition is proposed, which, like the closest device selected as a prototype, contains a device for placing ammunition and a mechanism for supplying ammunition to the sending line. A feature of the proposed utility model that distinguishes it from the well-known adopted for the prototype device is that the device for placing ammunition consists of two cluster modules, each of which is a set of cartridges made in the form of flat box-shaped elements with inlet and outlet openings, inside the guides are inclined mounted. The mechanism for supplying ammunition to the sending line is a carriage with the possibility of reciprocating movement in the direction perpendicular rn of the sending line. The carriage is equipped with a hydraulic or pneumatic drive installed inside the container. The container is supplemented by an ammunition dispatch device located between the cluster modules on the dispatch line and equipped with a reader of information from electronic contactless ammunition chips. The container is also equipped with a device for the deployment of ammunition installed at the output of the device for dispatching ammunition with the possibility of disconnection.

The device for sending ammunition can be equipped with a hydraulic or pneumatic drive connected

respectively, with the hydraulic or pneumatic system of the combat vehicle.

As mentioned above, the task set for the authors of the proposed utility model was the development of a container for transportation and layout of ammunition, which, in comparison with the prototype, has wider functionality, namely:

not only by placing ammunition and putting them on the sending line, but also by the possibility of their layout according to a given algorithm in accordance with pre-calculated coordinates.

The second, no less important task is to increase the efficiency of the container.

The technical result achieved in the proposed utility model is obtained due to the following.

1. The original cartridge design of the container, consisting of two modules, each of which contains at least 10 cartridges, while at least 15 units of ammunition, for example, smoke bombs (UDSh), are placed in each cartridge.

2. A significant improvement in the mechanism for supplying ammunition to the sending line, which, unlike the prototype, is a fully automated mechanism (in this particular example, made with a pneumatic drive). The specified mechanism is built into the container and is a carriage filled with ammunition (smoke bombs), moving back and forth in the direction perpendicular to the sending line.

In addition, the proposed container is supplemented by two new devices: a device for dispatching ammunition and a device for laying out ammunition. The device for dispatching ammunition according to the signal of the control system, made in the form of an industrial controller, “pushes” the ammunition (smoke bomb) into the device for laying out the ammunition, which implements them in

according to the given algorithm. These newly introduced features significantly expand the functionality and efficiency of the device selected as a prototype, providing automatic removal of ammunition to the sending line and its layout.

Thus, the combination of the above signs allows us to solve one of the urgent problems that have arisen at the present stage, namely: replacing outdated traditional devices for laying out smoke bombs and other means of hitting the enemy with modern ones that have a large capacity (at least 300 smoke bombs) with containers that provide transportation of ammunition to the place of hostilities and their layout according to a given algorithm.

The proposed utility model is illustrated by drawings, which show one of the specific examples of the implementation of the container for transportation and layout of ammunition (smoke bombs).

Figure 1 shows the inventive container (front view);

figure 2 is a top view of figure 1;

figure 3 is a view a in figure 1;

figure 4 schematically shows a schematic diagram of a mechanism for supplying ammunition (smoke bombs) with a pneumatic drive to the sending line;

figure 5 shows the position of the smoke bomb in the sending device at the time of its output to the sending line (in section);

figure 6 - the position of the smoke bomb at the time of its "pushing" from the sending device in the device for the layout of ammunition (smoke bombs) (in the context);

Fig.7 shows a combat vehicle equipped with a container of the claimed design.

The container for transportation and layout of ammunition, for example, smoke bombs, consists of a housing 1 (see figure 1), inside of which

mounted device for placing smoke bombs 2, which includes two cartridge modules 3 and 4. Each cartridge module consists of a set of cartridges 5 made in the form of flat box-shaped elements with input 6 and output 7 holes (see figure 3). Guides 8 are mounted obliquely inside the cassettes 5, designed to move the smoke bombs 2 during the filling of the cassettes 5 during loading, as well as to transport the smoke bombs 2 when they are fed to the sending line “D”. For supplying smoke bombs 2 to the sending line “D”, the container is equipped with a mechanism 9 for supplying smoke bombs to the sending line with a pneumatic drive 10 (see Fig. 1). The schematic diagram of the mechanism 9 is schematically shown in figure 4. The mechanism 9 for supplying smoke bombs 2 to the sending line consists of a carriage 11, in the slots 12 of which smoke bombs 2 are supplied to the sending line “D”. The reciprocating movement of the carriage 11 in the direction perpendicular to the sending line "D" is carried out in this example, the implementation of the utility model using a pneumatic actuator 10. The pneumatic actuator 10 is installed inside the container (see figure 1) and consists of a housing 13 and a pneumatic cylinder 14 in which, under the action of compressed air, the piston 15 moves with the rod 16. Compressed air supplied from the pneumatic system 17 of the combat vehicle 18, for which KAMAZ can be used, for example (see Fig. 7), enters through the nozzle 19, and is displaced I am from the pneumatic cylinder 14 through the nozzle 20. On the housing 13 of the pneumatic cylinder 14, end position sensors 21 are mounted for determining the discrete position of the piston 15. The rigid rod 16 of the piston 15 is connected to the carriage 11 by means of a flexible supply 22, located in the guides 23, 24, 25, which can be used, for example, the Kofulso stainless steel pipeline, manufacturer InfoStroy (Nizhny Novgorod). The guides 23, 24, 25 and the flexible supply 22 provide the conversion of the movement of the piston 15 with the rod 16 in the reciprocating movement of the carriage 11 in the direction

perpendicular to the line of sending "D". The carriage 11 is moved along guides, for example, of the “dovetail” type (not shown in FIG.), Mounted on the bottom of the container.

Between the cassette modules 3 and 4 on the sending line "D" is a device for sending ammunition 26 (see figure 1), equipped with a pneumatic drive. The device for sending ammunition 26 consists of a housing 27 (see FIGS. 5, 6), into which smoke bombs 2 are fed to the sending line using the smoke bomb feeding mechanism 9. The pneumatic drive consists of a pneumatic cylinder 28, in which the piston 29, which expels smoke bombs 2 to the line of sending "D". The pneumatic drive using pipelines 30 and 31 connected to the pneumatic cylinder 28 through the pneumatic valve 32 and the pipe 33 is connected to the pneumatic system 17 installed in the combat vehicle 18. An information reader 34 is installed on the housing 27 of the munition sending device 26, designed to read information from electronic contactless chips 35 mounted in smoke bombs 2. As a reader 34 can be used reader PROX M-RW-USB-FAST v 1.2.4, manufactured in Russia. At the exit of the smoke bombs 2 from the sending device 26 there is a device 36 for laying out the smoke bombs, which is a flexible swivel sleeve that is mounted on the housing 27, for example, on a threaded connection and can be easily disconnected if necessary, for example, when transporting the container from the base, where it is loaded into the ammunition layout area. An industrial controller 37 is installed in the cockpit of the combat vehicle 18, which controls the operation of the container.

During operation, the proposed container for transportation and layout of ammunition works as follows.

Loading the container with ammunition (smoke bombs) 2 is done at the base manually, while the container is in the back

combat vehicle 18. Smoke bombs 2 are placed in the inlet 6 of each cartridge 5, which descend down the inclined guides 8, filling the cartridge modules 3.4. Before the deployment of ammunition, the carriage 11 of the mechanism 9 for supplying ammunition to the sending line “D” should be filled with smoke bombs 2. The operation of the container for transportation and layout of ammunition is carried out by the operator remotely from the control panel, or in automatic mode using the industrial controller 37 located in the cockpit of a combat vehicle 18. The frequency of supply of smoke bombs 2 is determined by a predetermined layout algorithm in accordance with the meteorological situation and the assigned combat mission. From the console, the operator receives information about the number of smoke bombs 2 used up and remaining in the container, as well as information read from electronic contactless chips 35. Pneumatic drives of the ammunition supply mechanism 9 to the sending line “D” and the device 26 for sending ammunition work from the installed on the combat vehicle 18 of the pneumatic system 17, which is its standard equipment.

Thus, in the proposed utility model, a container is developed that has wider functionality compared to the prototype, namely: not only placing ammunition and putting them on the sending line, but also the possibility of their layout according to a given algorithm.

Claims (2)

1. A container for transporting and laying out ammunition, comprising a device for placing ammunition and a mechanism for supplying ammunition to the sending line, characterized in that the device for placing ammunition consists of two cluster modules, each of which is a set of cartridges made in the form of flat box elements with inlet and outlet openings, inside of which guides are installed obliquely, the mechanism for supplying ammunition to the sending line is a carriage with the possibility of reciprocating staged movement in the direction perpendicular to the sending line, equipped with a hydraulic or pneumatic drive installed inside the container, the container being supplemented with an ammunition sending device located between the cartridge modules on the sending line and equipped with an information reader from electronic contactless ammunition chips, an ammunition layout device installed at the output of the device for sending ammunition with the possibility of disconnection. 2. The container according to claim 1, characterized in that the device for dispatching ammunition is equipped with a hydraulic or pneumatic drive, respectively connected to the hydraulic or pneumatic system of the combat vehicle.