US20070151493A1 - Integration of a large calibre gun on a ship - Google Patents

Integration of a large calibre gun on a ship Download PDF

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US20070151493A1
US20070151493A1 US10/535,800 US53580003A US2007151493A1 US 20070151493 A1 US20070151493 A1 US 20070151493A1 US 53580003 A US53580003 A US 53580003A US 2007151493 A1 US2007151493 A1 US 2007151493A1
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Alexander Graf
Henning von Seidlitz
Heinz-Josef Kruse
Uwe Folgmann
Peter Liebel
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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
    • B63G1/00—Arrangements of guns or missile launchers; Vessels characterised thereby
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B17/00—Vessels parts, details, or accessories, not otherwise provided for
    • B63B17/0081—Vibration isolation or damping elements or arrangements, e.g. elastic support of deck-houses
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B3/00—Hulls characterised by their structure or component parts
    • B63B3/02—Hulls assembled from prefabricated sub-units
    • B63B3/08—Hulls assembled from prefabricated sub-units with detachably-connected sub-units
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B3/00—Hulls characterised by their structure or component parts
    • B63B3/14—Hull parts
    • B63B3/70—Reinforcements for carrying localised loads, e.g. propulsion plant, guns
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41—WEAPONS
    • F41A—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE
    • F41A23/00—Gun mountings, e.g. on vehicles; Disposition of guns on vehicles
    • F41A23/24—Turret gun mountings

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  • the invention relates to a method for integration of a large-caliber gun on a ship, as claimed in the features of the precharacterizing clauses of claims 1 and 2 , and to a ship gun as claimed in the features of the precharacterizing clause of claim 6 .
  • the ship ammunition that is used at the moment is specially manufactured and is not compatible with land ammunition.
  • Other ammunition for example armor-piercing ammunition etc, cannot be used.
  • a further disadvantage of the currently used ship ammunition is the short range, as a result of which land targets cannot be attacked without considerable risk to the ship.
  • a further disadvantage of the comparatively small caliber of ship guns is that the guns are susceptible to weather influences, for example wind, so that small ammunition is subject to comparatively wide scatter.
  • a further disadvantage of the known ship projectiles mentioned above is that they cannot carry intelligent submunitions, for example cluster munitions or smoke. In order to be effective, a high hit accuracy is required, that is to say a greater number of shots will be necessary in some circumstances.
  • the gun turrets that are currently fitted to ships are not gas-tight. Furthermore, they are hard-mounted on the ship, that is to say they are rigidly connected to the ship, which means that the recoil forces resulting from possible use of large-caliber ammunition would be introduced directly into the ship structure and would lead to its destruction. Reinforcement of the steel in the ship structure would lead to a heavy weight and the obvious disadvantages associated with this, as well as leading to considerable additional costs.
  • a gun such as this is known from EP 0 051 119 A1.
  • An automatic loading system for large-caliber ammunition is described.
  • a Howitzer 155 mm
  • the carriage is in turn firmly installed on a ship deck. This results in the problem that the recoil forces from the gun/carriage are introduced directly into the ship structure.
  • the object of the invention is to satisfy the existing military requirements for provision of the capability for naval fire support (NFS) for the use of military ships in the coastal area, with fire support for amphibious operations being of particular importance in this context, for which purpose the projectile range should be considerably increased so that it is also possible to attack inland targets with a high hit accuracy.
  • the aim is to achieve this object for newly built ships and during ship conversions without any major modifications to the steel structure and with as little financial cost and time penalty as possible.
  • the invention is based on the knowledge that the use of land guns on ships, which has not been possible until now, satisfies the new naval requirement by the use of existing technology, which even exceeds expectations, rather than by expensive new development.
  • the use of the land guns with a caliber of >127 mm on a ship advantageously makes it possible to use the proven technology of large-caliber land guns for newly built ships.
  • the turret of a land gun can be connected to an adaptor plate and a shock-absorbing mounting and can be installed on the ship in such a way that the existing steel structure of the ship withstands the increased recoil forces.
  • the modular (for example) use of the turret and of the weapon system from the armored 155 mm howitzer as a ship gun makes it possible in a particularly advantageous manner to achieve a long range and high effectiveness on the target with little scatter.
  • the gun according to the invention can also advantageously carry intelligent submunitions, for example cluster munitions or smoke munitions.
  • the use of a turret with a weapon system from the armored 155 mm howitzer as a ship gun allows fire support for land operations from a safe position with an advantageous range of >40 km.
  • the modular installation of the armored howitzer on the ship can be sealed such that it is NBC-proof by the use of a radial damper, thus preventing any danger to the operator.
  • the long range allows the ship to be further away from the land, thus making it considerably more difficult to find the position of the ship.
  • land targets can easily be located from the ship by means of helicopters and drones.
  • the invention also advantageously allows the use of projectiles with submunitions, as a result of which, when bomblets are used, it is in any case possible to attack targets without requiring 100% exact target coordinates, which represents a particular advantage for attacks from ships at sea.
  • the invention allows the combat range for seaborne targets at sea to be doubled.
  • the proven, intelligent sensor system of the armored howitzer allows the turret to always be newly aimed even though the ship is continuing to move. The high aiming accuracy results in a considerable reduction in the number of shots to be fired.
  • FIG. 1 shows a side view of the modular installation of a turret with a weapon system from an armored howitzer on a ship.
  • FIG. 2 shows the modular configuration of the turret of the armored howitzer, illustrated enlarged.
  • FIG. 3 shows a plan view of a previous ship gun with the mounting device on the deck, which is also used for mounting the turret of the armored 155 mm howitzer.
  • FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a land gun 1 on the upper deck 7 of a naval forces ship 2 .
  • the illustrated example shows a turret 3 , which can rotate, with armament 15 (which can be elevated) from a land gun, based on the example of the armored 155 mm howitzer that is successfully used by the land-based armed forces.
  • the turret 3 is equipped with an inertial platform (which cannot be seen) with GPS satellite navigation on the turret 3 . This measures the attitude of the barrel 3 in three dimensions, and the geographical position on the earth. The accurate position of the gun turret 3 is determined by satellite navigation, in consequence allowing the necessary aiming of the barrel 15 to be calculated.
  • a fire control computer (which is not illustrated) receives the desired target coordinates and determines the necessary ballistic curve independently of ship-dependent influences. In order to fire a shot, the turret 3 is rotated about its axis in accordance with the target calculation, and the barrel 3 is elevated about the trunnion axis 16 .
  • the recoil forces from the weapon barrel 15 occur only after the shot has been fired. The aiming required for the next shot must be calculated again. On the ship, it is necessary to prevent the recoil forces from causing damage to the ship structure. This is advantageously achieved by means of an adaptor 4 (as illustrated in FIG. 2 ) and an adaptor plate with a shock-absorbing mounting 5 , which are connected to one another and are installed on the ship in such a way that the existing steel structure of the ship 2 will withstand the increased recoil forces.
  • the shock-absorbing mounting 5 is supported by a mounting frame 6 .
  • the mounting frame 6 can be mounted together with the adaptor plate in the turret in a modular form, as a unit.
  • the mounting frame 6 is designed such that it equalizes out the space of a hole which is provided on the free deck 7 of the ship, and can be mounted on the existing hole rim area 9 of the deck 7 .
  • the lower half of the turret ring mount 12 is connected to an intermediate frame 4 , 13 and/or to the adaptor 4 or the adaptor plate, or is inserted in it, with the intermediate frame 13 being connected to the shock-absorbing mounting 5 .
  • the adaptor plate 4 and the intermediate frame 13 are shaped appropriately (in a manner which is not illustrated) and can be scaled appropriately for the respective distance between bulkheads, with integrated reinforcing structures for static and dynamic introduction of the forces resulting from the weight of the gun into the structure of the ship on which it is mounted.
  • the shock-absorbing mounting elements 5 comprise energy-absorbing damper and shock elements and, with a damping movement of approximately 150 mm, reduce the forces to be transmitted to the deck to an acceptable level.
  • the shock-absorbing mounting 5 comprises mounting elements 5 ′ which are arranged like segments on the circumference.
  • the mounting elements 5 ′ are connected to the intermediate frame 4 , 13 in such a way that they absorb compressive and tensile forces depending on the firing direction and elevation angle, and are accordingly compressed or extended elastically in order to absorb shock.
  • the mounting elements 5 ′ can be loaded and are elastically deformable on a number of axes corresponding to the firing direction, and are composed, for example, of a rubber mixture, a steel spring or some other suitable elastically deformable spring or damping element.
  • the mounting frame 6 is designed in such a way that it is fitted as a unit on the deck, and can be firmly connected, in a modular form to the shock-absorbing mounting 5 and the turret 3 .
  • the mounting frame 6 also allows installation in a different sequence. For example, the frame 6 can also be mounted on the deck first, with the remaining parts subsequently being inserted into the mounting frame.
  • a radial damper 14 which is preferably in the form of a hollow rubber flexible tube, is arranged between the intermediate frame 13 and the mounting frame 6 , for air-tight NBC sealing.
  • a sealing skirt 10 protects the mounting elements 5 and, to some extent, the mounting frame 6 against waves of water.
  • the module 18 of the armored howitzer can be connected to the ship in a shock-proof manner in various ways, which are not illustrated.
  • a deformable seal between the lower face and the upper deck ensure gas-tightness as well as grounding/electrical bonding.

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DE10254786A DE10254786A1 (de) 2002-11-22 2002-11-22 Integration eines grosskalibrigen Geschützes auf einem Schiff
PCT/EP2003/010820 WO2004048878A1 (de) 2002-11-22 2003-09-30 Integration eines grosskalibrigen geschützes auf einem schiff

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