DE1553979A1 - Magazine for a launching and loading device for recoil-driven steerable missiles, especially for installation in armored vehicles - Google Patents

Description

BOLKOW limited liability company Ottobrunn near Munich

Ottobrunn, December 9, 1965 BP Λ87 TPl Pu / sz

Dr. Expl.

Magazine for a launching and loading device
for recoil-propelled steerable missiles,
especially for installation in armored vehicles

The invention relates to a magazine for a launching
and loading device for recoil-driven steerable missiles which can be automatically fed from the launcher's magazine, which is arranged inside an armored vehicle and participates in the lateral directional movement of the launcher.

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Armored vehicles used as weapon carriers should be small and built as low as possible in order to offer little target area. On the other hand, they must be able to accommodate as many missiles as possible in their interior in addition to the launching device, There must also be space for the crew operating the vehicle as well as for the indispensable observer and the so-called Steering gates. After all, you need the equipment for the drive and for the others, for the defense of the vehicle weapons also needed space.

Attempts have been made to solve this problem in an armored vehicle with recoilless gun by expanding the gun barrel to accommodate a drum magazine and arranging it in a frustoconical housing rotatably mounted in the armor cover of the vehicle, in which the devices for the gunner and the observer are accommodated, who thereby participate in every lateral directional movement (DAS 1 186 568 ⁺ ).

Such a launching device offers the advantage that the few in the relatively small drum magazine Missiles can be fired with a relatively high rate of fire and are also always protected by the armor cover, however, to store the missiles required to reload the drum magazine, one - in the direction of travel of the vehicle seen - space behind the conical housing is necessary, which causes a considerable increase in the size of the vehicle .

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Another disadvantage of this arrangement is that the missile can be reloaded into the drum magazine by a Loaders can only be carried out in a narrowly limited swivel range, both in terms of the lateral and elevation angles of the gun is. Continuous reloading of the drum magazine in any correct position is therefore not possible.

Finally, openings are made for ammunitioning the weapon system in the armored cover of the magazine space behind the housing which make the measures for diving and NBC weapon safety unnecessarily difficult.

A drum-shaped magazine for an armored vehicle has also become known, the launching device of which, designed as a gun, for recoil-propelled missiles is connected to this magazine to form a structural unit and is reloaded from a magazine tape located in the magazine. The bearings of the drum-shaped magazine also form the alignment axis of the launching device. The launching device and the drum-shaped housing are arranged above the armor cover on a pot-shaped housing which is rotatably mounted in the vehicle with the aid of a turntable around a vertical alignment axis perpendicular to the vertical alignment axis. A storage container for missiles used to reload the magazine tape, the devices required for their automatic reloading and the operating personnel are housed in the pot-shaped housing (US Pat ^{. No. 2,955,981 +} ).

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It is true that with this arrangement the missiles, as they are in the magazine belt participate in the vertical and lateral directional movement of the launcher, can be reloaded at any time, but yours is Accomodation in different magazines with the associated conveying facilities expensive and prone to failure and limited, that only small non-steerable missiles can be used.

Furthermore, the silhouette of the armored vehicle is created by the drum-shaped housing located above the armor cover with its launching device designed as a gun, it is much too large and the configuration of this training offers too many Areas of attack for defense measures.

Finally, drum-shaped magazines for recoil-propelled missiles are known, which are remotely controlled from a remote command post and have devices to convey the missiles from the magazine into a launching device, which are arranged in a rotatable armored dome located on the top of the vehicle. The firing device is a launch tube hohenrichtbares, which is pivoted for recharging in a vertical position (US Patent 2,792,757 ^+).

To enable quick and safe reloading in the Schützen der To achieve armored cover is the drum magazine in one arranged below the launcher located space

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and the individual plug bodies are progressed through a Rotary movement in the with the vertically placed socket tube brought the corresponding loading position and then with- ■ conveyed into the launch tube by means of a lifting device.

As a result of the considerable spatial expansion of such firing and loading devices, they are only suitable for installation in relatively large watercraft.

The invention is based on the object, the disadvantages of the known Fix devices and one protected for installation in relatively low, armored on all sides, NBC weapons and vehicles that offer little attack surface suitable for the existing ones Space-optimally utilizing magazine, which enables a high rate of fire, to accommodate a large number of recoil-driven to create remotely controllable plug bodies that are independent reloadable from the respective directional angle of the launcher are.

This object is achieved according to the invention in that the Magazine is rotatably mounted about the directional axis of the launching device and the plug body is parallel with its longitudinal axis to the lateral alignment at such a distance from the lateral axis holding a circular shaft, that the tree enclosed by the inner wall of the shaft has at least the firing point that corresponds to the loading point of the shaft Takes up the loading device and the operating personnel required for the remote control of the missile »

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The circular ring-shaped one used to accommodate plug bodies Shaft merges into a loading point with an approximately square cross-section, which is connected to the launching and loading devices receiving slot is connected.

In order to take a plug body from the magazine at any time to the and loading device to be able to bring the corresponding loading point, is according to the further embodiment of the invention inside the shaft a serving to accommodate the plug body rotating ring-shaped holding means, which is mounted rotatably relative to the lateral directional movement of the magazine, is arranged.

The invention is thereby developed in an advantageous manner, that the magazine carrying the launching and loading device communicates with the armored vehicle via roller bearings known per se connected interchangeable unit forms.

All details about the invention emerge from the following Description in conjunction with the drawing, on which an embodiment of the invention is shown more or less schematically is. Show in detail

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a magazine according to the invention within a partially armored vehicle and

Figure 2 is a partially sectioned plan view of the Magazine according to Figure 1.

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In an all-round armored vehicle l_ with its indicated driver (see FIGS. 1 and 2), a cylindrical magazine 2 is rotatably mounted with the aid of a wire roller bearing 3 known per se and has a toothed ring 4 at its lower end with which a Pinion 5 of a servomotor 6 having both a high speed and a slow gear is engaged. In this way, high straightening speeds and low tracking speeds of the magazine 2 executing the lateral straightening movement are possible. At the end facing away from the ring gear, the magazine merges into a frustoconical cover 7, which covers the wire rolling bearing 3 and thus also projects beyond the armored cover of the vehicle JL, and has hatches 8 serving for entry from the outside.

In an annular shaft IjL formed by the outer wall 9 of the magazine 2 and an intermediate wall Io arranged concentrically therewith, there are missiles 12, their longitudinal axis is parallel to the imaginary axis of rotation of the magazine. The twenty-two missiles 12 in the present exemplary embodiment stand on a turntable 13 mounted on the floor of the magazine 2, which, as can be seen from Figure 1, merges into a ring gear l4, with which a pinion 15 of a further servomotor 16 is in engagement. With the help of the servomotor 16 are the magazined Missile 12 relative to the lateral directional movement, which with the help of the Servomotor 6 is carried out, movable in relation to Figure 2 both clockwise and counter-clockwise. the

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Missiles 12 are on the turntable 13 with the help of clamps 18 held and are supported in a support ring I9 arranged at the upper end of the magazine.

As can be seen from FIG. 2, the annular shaft JJ _{1 of} the magazine 2 widens at one end to form a loading point 2o which is approximately square in cross section and which can accommodate two missiles 12 standing next to one another. This loading point merges into a slot-shaped radial opening 21 in the cover 7, in which two similar launching devices 23 and 24 are arranged pivotably about the leveling axis 25, which is penetrated by the Seitenrichtach.se of the magazine in such a way that the side and elevation axes are perpendicular stand on top of each other. In the drawing, the firing device 23, which is hydraulically pivotable in a manner not shown here, is shown in the firing position and the firing device 24 is shown in the loading position. The opening 21 can also be closed by a hatch 26. In addition to the launching devices, seats 28 and 29 for the observer indicated here and the guards are mounted within the space enclosed by the outer wall 9 of the magazine 2, whose task it is to operate the observation and steering periscopes J> o and 31 stored in the cover 7.

In the one not occupied by the circular shaft _1JL ABC-weapons-tight space of the magazine 2 is a hatch 33, which is closed with the hatch cover 34, is provided in the in Figure 2 shown straightening position of the magazine an access

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allows the space enclosed by the circular shaft J ₁ I into the interior of the armored vehicle JL, which is used, for example, to accommodate the personnel required to operate the vehicle, see FIG. 2.

Each of the shooting devices 23 and 24 has a hydraulic one actuated loading claw 35, which is not shown here with Fittings such as those packaged in launch tubes Missiles 12 correspond. Dodging missiles 12 when reloading prevents the already mentioned support ring 19, the is led to the loading point 2o of the magazine.

For the sake of completeness, it should be mentioned that in the cover 7 of the magazine 2, above the hatch 33, there is space for a conventional machine gun 4o.

As can be seen from the above, the magazine 2 is arranged completely inside the armored vehicle 1. Only the relatively low cover J protrudes beyond the armored cover, so that when the launching devices 23 and 24 are retracted, the armored vehicle has an extremely low silhouette.

With the help of the turntable 13 each of the magazined missiles is 12 movable to the loading point 2o and alternately from there movable by means of the firing devices 23 and 24 into the firing position projecting beyond the armor cover, the lateral directional movement of the magazine-2 and the elevation movement of

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the firing device 2j5 or 24 in the firing position is carried out. It is also readily apparent that in any lateral straightening position of the magazine - as a result of the slewing ring that can be moved relative to the magazine 13 - Plug body 12 can be brought to the loading point.

The space occupied by the observer and the helmsman within of the magazine can be easily sealed in an ABC weapon-safe manner. The magazine with launching and loading devices and the one on the inside wall of the shaft that holds the missiles Occupied space for the operating personnel forms a compact structural unit, which is simple and easy with conventional aids can be exchanged quickly.

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Claims (5)

Claims 1. Magazine for a launching and loading device for recoil-powered steerable missiles, which are arranged from the inside of an armored vehicle, at the directional movement the launcher participating magazine of the launcher can be fed in automatically, thereby marking g e t that the magazine (2) is rotatably mounted in the vehicle about the side belt axis and one of the missiles (l2) with its longitudinal axis parallel to the side belt axis at such a distance from the Seitenriehtachse holding circular shaft (11) has that the space enclosed by the inner wall of the shaft at least with a loading point (2o) of the shaft corresponding launch and loading device (23 and 24) which houses aiming and steering devices (30, 31) and the necessary operating personnel. 2. Magazine according to claim 1, characterized in that that the annular shaft (11), which is used to hold missiles (12), has an approximately square cross-section having loading point (2o) passes over with a slot receiving the launching and loading device (2j5, 24) (21) is connected in the cover (7) of the magazine (2). -2- 209824/0066 5. Magazine according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the receptacle of the plug body (12) serving holding means (Ij) within the shaft (ll) relative rotatably mounted for the lateral directional movement of the magazine are. 4. Magazine according to claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the launching and loading device (25, 24) carrying magazine (2) one with the vehicle via one is known wire rolling bearing (3) connected interchangeable unit. 5. Magazine according to claims 1 to 4, characterized in that it enables entry from the outside in addition to Hatches (8) a connection with the inside of the tank cover of the vehicle (.11) enable space Has access which can be locked with the help of a hatch cover (34) ABC-weapon-tight.