DE1578069C3 - Feeding device in the form of a magazine drum rotatably arranged inside an armored vehicle for a launching device for missiles with recoil drive - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a feeder device in the form of an inside of an armored vehicle rotatably arranged magazine drum for a launching device, which under the control of a sequential circuit in the magazine drum with a vertical axis mounted missile automatically grabs and in Direction / of the missile longitudinal axis from the armor cover extends and pivots there into a firing position.

Armored, with launcher for recoil-powered Vehicles provided with missiles must be small and in order to offer few surfaces to attack be built as low as possible and still have sufficient, carry a certain number of missiles in relation to the vehicle value. Furthermore, the missiles arranged inside the armored vehicle must be quick and easy major handicap of the personnel required to operate the vehicle, as well as without major The workload of one or more loaders can be fed to the launcher: um; one to enable high rate of fire.

It has therefore been proposed according to German patent specification 1 137 348, the removal process in the case of the above-mentioned delivery device, the missile automatically releases and detects To automate mountings to a large extent. For this purpose, rail-shaped brackets are provided, whose openings face each other and accommodate the holder arranged accordingly on the missile, these holders rest on boundaries after the missile has been introduced and between the rails and the mating surfaces of the holder on the missile a suitably operable Slide shoe is provided, which surrounds the mating surfaces with jaws and after a stroke in the longitudinal direction the rails can be locked against the limits.

In this way, the missile is removed from the magazine with the launcher • The connecting trolley facilitates the magazining of missiles, but no possibility to improve the interior of an armored vehicle and the missiles must still be of Hand fed to the trolley. Because this type of reloading at the expense of the rate of fire Attempts have also been made to address the problem of high rate of fire in a vehicle with a attached to the vehicle upper wall, designed as a vertically and laterally adjustable tube bundle launching system to solve for recoil-geared missiles that in the one under the launch system an elevator for the missiles with a magazine drum rotatably mounted on this elevator was ordered (see. German Patent 1 020 547). Those stored upright in the magazine drum Missiles are made by gradually pivoting around the vertical axis of rotation "of the magazine drum brought into a loading position from which it is located by the under the magazine drum Lift the lift truck vertically upwards into the vertically pivoted launch tubes are brought. In the case of such a feeding device, that is sufficient Number of missiles that can be automatically reloaded from the magazine drum for one reload only the launch system. In addition, this device, which is intended for larger watercraft, is required a lot of space, so that they cannot be accommodated in armored land vehicles of the type mentioned above are.

According to a proposal that does not belong to the state of the art (cf. German Auslegeschrift 1 216 734), the only height-adjustable ab-. 40 firing devices are arranged on a turret of an armored vehicle that can be rotated about a vertical axis, the missiles being provided in a launch tube in the turret standing or hanging vertically on the inner circumference of the turret. In this solution, however, it is disadvantageous that the launching tubes must be swiveled out of their magazined position by an automatic loading device and transferred to the launching device that has been retracted into the interior of the turret. Accordingly, the execution of this loader with the necessary for keeping the missile locks during pivoting brings an increased technical complexity, the operational reliability ^J - such reduced, even in difficult combat situations fighting armored vehicles.

The arrangement of the magazined missiles that is concentric to the inner circumference of the tower still remains for the operating personnel of the vehicle only a very small space, which is also still of the Launchers. 'Is reduced in size. Besides that, this is also; Operators separated from other sections of the papered vehicle. Is there a problem with the tightness of the room, for example a defect in the rotating device of the magazine, other 'repairs to units not arranged in the tower, For example, the engine or other supply systems can only be repaired if

that the operating personnel leave the armored vehicle through the hatches. Since such a Action in combat situations certainly leads to the death of the crew and, on the other hand, failure to remedy the situation the detected defect can lead to the loss of the vehicle and the team, this will The solution for storing the missiles in magazines does not meet the tactical requirements.

US Pat. No. 3,113,486 is also known a delivery device of the type mentioned, in which the missiles in a magazine drum are arranged upright on a horizontal support plate. The missiles are here stored in guide rails and are driven by a chain drive feed device in die'coaxially directed launching device with the missile in question transported. Reloading the magazine drum. is only possible from above, so that this feeder device can be installed in Armored vehicles are not suitable and not intended for them.

A similar delivery device is shown in U.S. Patent 2,792,757. Here the missiles are also vertical in a magazine drum stored and by fixed clamping jaws in Connection with the missile in the height locking pawls held. Not even with this one Brewing device designed for installation in armored vehicles is a reloading of the magazine, drum only possible from above or below. In addition, the reloading distances are proportionate large. . ,.

. The object of the invention is therefore to provide a for installation in low,. Armored on all sides and NBC weapons protected Vehicles suitable delivery device for a launcher for missiles with To create recoil propulsion, with short reloading distances for the magazined missile or the a missile containing launch tubes is simple, optimal utilization and Accessibility for the operating personnel of the space available in the vehicle, easy handling as well as an exact assignment of the missiles; with regard to the receiving organs of the Launching device guaranteed. .

In the case of a delivery device in the form of a magazine drum rotatably arranged inside an armored vehicle _; This object is achieved according to the invention in that the horizontal support plate at the lower end of the magazine drum has hydraulically operated joints, each of which has a missile or a launch tube over part of its length partially; comprehensive holding claws which can be pivoted in opposite directions about an axis of rotation der.Gelenke, which is parallel to the axis of the body of the body, carry ,. ' and 'that' the carrier plate is furthermore provided at its outer edge area with a circular ring in which part-shaped recesses parallel to the axis of rotation; or.-; on . Launch tube, arranged .absorbing means are: '. ^^ U; ^ i! c?, - ^ '^; , c.-r B ^ß i of such a feed device are the ways by which the magazined missiles or launching tubes must be brought to the launching device, without the interposition of a loading device to "an automatic rotating movement of the magazine drum. To

the removal of a missile or a launcher tube from the magazine drum by the launcher is also ensured by a step-by-step further rotation of the magazine drum that the launcher is assigned a missile again immediately after each removal, while the empty magazine space is within reach of the shooter and immediately off again an on-board supply of missiles can be replenished. Because this type of training of the delivery device is particularly space-saving, it is thus also possible, a larger number of To keep missiles ready for the reloading of the launcher. In addition, inside the vehicle, preferably seen in the direction of travel of the vehicle, further behind the magazine drum Missiles are stored upright. Are two 'launchers provided with the associated'Zubringvorrichtungen, so a single loader operate two feed devices. The reloading process is also made easier for him that, controlled by the follow-up circuitry, the holding claws arranged on the joints open in opposite directions; the loader. needs I- : diglich the missile placed on the carrier plate or launch tubes with their receiving means, designed for example as pegs, into the parallel recesses align the circular ring of the carrier plate approximately. By closing the retaining claws the missile or the launch tube is then locked in the position that has now been adjusted.

Furthermore, it allows the design of the delivery device according to the invention, the space inside to use the armored vehicle optimally without giving the operating personnel access to it to increase in essential units in an emergency.

The invention is based on the following description explained in more detail in connection with the drawing I, on the one embodiment more or is shown less schematically. ...; ... '.

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L shows a longitudinal section through a cargo space of an armored vehicle only partially shown Vehicle with a feeder device according to the invention, V. ", ... '..... L: .'.-,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the delivery device

Although the location of the one shown in FIG. 1 and 2, only partially shown, armored vehicles 1 mounted wing bodies can be different in adaptation to the respective vehicle conditions, the embodiment to be described is based on a vertical mounting of the missiles. _v ^ ^i::; ';. , ': ,, ... ,].:, - ■■:; ". ' ^. ^ - sXT. Vi.;.; .. 'V." ■ "'\

In a so-called combat area 2 of the vehicle 1 are based on known. Training two launchers 3 and 3 'arranged side by side! Anyone who, according to Fig. 2, to the right and left of the `` thought. J delivery device designed as a magazine tray 5, 6 is assigned. a "horizontally arranged," circular carrier plate 12. Stand on this carrier plate

in the present case eight (see FIG. 2) missiles 13, which can also be located in launch tubes 14 serving as packaging. They are arranged with their longitudinal axes parallel to the vertical axis of rotation of the feeder device and in a circle around it and are held in their vertical position by holding claws 15. The holding claws 15 are rotatably mounted about hydraulically actuated joints 16 fastened on the carrier plate 12. The retaining claws are opened when the missiles are brought in and out via a sequential circuit (not shown here).

Recesses are provided for centering the position of the missiles or the launch tubes in the delivery device 18 is provided in a circular ring 19 located on the carrier plate 12, in which the in the top; sees wedge-shaped noses 20 of the missile or the! Äbschußrohre are introduced. The missiles or! In addition to the wedge-shaped nose 20 ', launch tubes also have a groove-like recess 21, that of the axial Alignment of the missile in the launcher 3 to be described is used.

At the free end of the bearing hubs there is a hydraulic rotary motor 22 which is controlled by the sequential circuit (not shown here) and is known per se. The rotary motor drives the feeding device step by step in a manner not shown here. Each step comprises at least three missiles 13. The launching devices 3 and 3 '(see Sequential circuit controlled drive means is movable up and down. The elevator car carries a hydraulically operated pivoting device 28 which is connected to the elevator car by means of a likewise hydraulically operated swivel joint 29. The pivoting device has two clamp-like holding claws 31 and 32, \ of which the holding claw 32 about the vertical bearing axis 33 when the launching device is retracted into the loading position by a hydraulic ^; Rotary motor 34 is pivotable. The extension and retraction movement of the launching device and the pivoting movement of the retaining claw 32 can be controlled by the above-mentioned sequential circuit. The holding claws 31 and 32 are adapted to the cross-sectional shape of the missiles or the launch tubes. On their inner surfaces, they have pressure pieces (not shown) for receiving and a centering piece corresponding to the recess 21 for aligning the missile ^; by or launch tubes; . . ^: ι

:; The ^^ 'printed pieces and' centering means of the holding- i claws .'der, in :; The launching device located in the loading position act, as can be seen from FIG. ^J with whose launch tube together, namely in the. approximate area of your center of gravity. The holding claws' encompass the missile or: the launch tube and press with their pressure pieces on the outer wall and the. wedge-shaped nose: of the missile or the launch tube, so that a non-positive locking is created after an axial alignment of the missile or the launching ⁶ 5 ^! tubes in the launcher was reached by a centering piece. ■ .- ■ · .-,

Above the loading point in the armored cover 42 there is a hatch cover 43 ABC weapons and slit-shaped hatch, 44, which is covered in a submersible manner and which can be exposed by said sequential circuit is.

Finally, are located in the direction of travel of the vehicle behind the feeder devices Space (see. Fig. 2) left and right of the vehicle longitudinal axis a number, here nine each, missiles or! Missile containing launch tubes stored upright. An attached to the vehicle floor, magazine-like grid 45 facilitates the reception of the missiles or the launch tubes on their ■ Storage place. It also prevents sideways slipping the missile, which is elastically braced at its upper end with quick-release fasteners 46 against the floor and top wall of the vehicle Space not taken up by the missiles or launch tubes behind the feeder devices 5 and'6 there is space for a loader, whose job it is to replenish the feeders.

The mode of operation of the delivery device described above is as follows:, _; ;

Is for example the abseiling device 3 'with a missile 13 or a launch tube 14 with a missile held therein in the launching. Position 4 is extended, then the feeder device is controlled by the subsequent circuit (not shown) 6 further rotated clockwise by a step that includes several missiles. A missile or launch tube is now in readiness again while the loading point the feeder device from which the missile was removed, now the loader located opposite, and thus the loader can put on a new launch tube, which with the help of Holding claws 15 can be locked.

After the extended missile has been launched and the launch tube has been launched, the launching device is switched to the position shown in FIG. 1 pivoted vertical position indicated by dash-dotted lines and retracted again. The holding claw 32, which is opened when the launch tube is dropped, and the holding claw 31 are moved over the launch tube, which is now in the loading position on the carrier plate 12 of the delivery device. As soon as the scraping device has reached its lowest position, the holding claw 32 is moved back into a locking position via the rotary motor 34, which can be triggered by a limit switch (not shown) connected to the sequence circuit mentioned, and at the same time the holding claws 15 of the carrier plate 12 are opened New launching tube or a new missile is connected to the launching device and can be moved into the launching position by this: Of course, the electrical signal connections (not shown here) between the launching device and launching tube or missile are also established during the locking and which enable the launching device to be extended Luke 44 ^ opened and closed. ^V - ^%: ;:; ¹ ^ ^{:; ϊ} "^ f: °

Since two delivery devices and the associated launching devices are provided, can during the remote-controlled flight of a first missile, a second missile in the one already described Way to be made ready to go.

As can be seen from the above, a number - in the present case eight - missiles from

the feeder without the help of a loader can be removed and fired by the launcher with short loading times. at Arrangement of two alternately extendable launching devices, one of which is always in Can be located in the launch position, sixteen missiles are automatically in the launchers reloadable. The reloading step of the feeder device, which includes at least three missiles

A loader has the option of carrying out the load with little effort and small reloading distances The missile can be reloaded into the delivery device or the gunner can do this during breaks in combat S Take over the filling of the drums, so that a special loader is superfluous. The for A loader required space can then also accommodate additional missiles serve. '

1 sheet of drawings

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Claims (1)

Claim: Feeding device in the form of a rotatably arranged inside an armored vehicle, magazine drum provided with a horizontal carrier plate for a launching device, under the control of a sequential circuit in the magazine drum with vertical Axis mounted missile automatically grabs and in the direction of the missile longitudinal axis executes the armored cover and pivots there into a firing position, characterized in that the horizontal support plate (12) has hydraulically operated joints (16) at the lower end of the magazine drum (5, 6), each of which has a missile (13) or a launch tube (14) over part of its length comprehensive to an axis of rotation of the joints (16) parallel to the missile axis in opposite directions carry pivotable retaining claws (15), and that. the carrier plate (12) also on its outer Edge area is provided with a circular ring (19) in which the wedge-shaped, to the axis of rotation of the magazine drum (5, 6) parallel recesses (18) are arranged, which are each opposite on Missile (13) or on the launch tube (14) arranged receiving means (20) are located. ■