67results about "Missile launchers" patented technology

An improved float tube arrangement for outdoor water-related activities, particularly hunting and fishing. The float can be deployed as a blind for partially concealing and camouflaging a user, who sits in the circular middle of the float upon an adjustable seat supported by suitable straps. When used as a blind a canopy and net are selectively deployed. The stable base is formed by a pair of coaxially stacked inner tubes that are tightly bound by a covering fabric. Mechanical integrity is enhanced by frame loops encircling the inner tubes, and an encircling belt that concentrically tensions the float within a depressed region formed at the juncture of the stacked inner tubes. A canopy mounted to the frame loops and an optional net can be deployed as desired.

The foldable ramp is intended to store, carry and launch relatively large size tube-launched missiles typically on board of relatively small sized naval surface ships. Accordingly, the foldable ramp comprises a frame suitable for carrying one or more canisters for launching rockets or missiles and support elements, which are pivotably attached to the frame and which are adapted to pivotably connect to the launching platform so as to allow rotary movement of the frame with respect to the launching platform. A lifting device lifts the front end of the frame whereby the rear end of the canisters displace a horizontal distance towards the rear of the ramp as said lifting device lifts the frame. Adverse effects of the aft flame of the launched rocket or missile is securely displaced to the outside of the vehicle while foldability of the ramp enables to prevent or reduce radar and eye visibility of the launcher, particularly when mounted on a naval surface ship.

An improved float tube arrangement for outdoor water-related activities, particularly hunting and fishing. The float can be deployed as a blind for partially concealing and camouflaging a user, who sits in the circular middle of the float upon an adjustable seat supported by suitable straps. When used as a blind a canopy and net are selectively deployed. The stable base is formed by a pair of coaxially stacked inner tubes that are tightly bound by a covering fabric. Mechanical integrity is enhanced by frame loops encircling the inner tubes, and an encircling belt that concentrically tensions the float within a depressed region formed at the juncture of the stacked inner tubes. A canopy mounted to the frame loops and an optional net can be deployed as desired.

A marine vessel comprising:at least one buoyant tubular foil; andat least one baffle plate positioned about the perimeter of the at least one buoyant tubular foil so as to protrude into the flow of water passing by the perimeter of the at least one buoyant tubular foil, whereby to create a high-pressure zone fore of the at least one baffle plate and a low-pressure zone immediately aft of the at least one baffle plate, whereby to create a dense stream of supercavitated water immediately aft of the at least one baffle plate.

The present invention discloses an amphibious vehicle for transiting deep or shallow waters and / or the full range of wetland and dry soil environments, consists of a box-like structure with buoyant tracks that are powered to move around the structure. The buoyant tracks encircle the vehicle's length and extend laterally for a substantial portion of the vehicle's width or beam. When operating in water the buoyant tracks provide a majority of the buoyancy keeping the box-like structure above water surface or its tracks can be flooded to submerge the vessel. The amphibious vehicle can transport heavy equipment and personnel from ships located offshore, across undeveloped beaches, to positions ashore.

A method for integrating a large-calibre gun on a ship, including connecting a turret having an armament of a lad gun with a calibre >127 mm in a modular configuration to an adaptor plate and a shock-absorbing mounting, and installing the turret on the ship so that an existing steel structure of the ship withstands increased recoil forces from the armament.

A boat accessory rack has a frame typically including at least two members, one of which is movable. An actuation device such as a manually operated actuator, a hydraulically operated actuator or a pneumatically operated actuator applies an actuation force to the movable member thereby moving the movable member from an unclosed position into a closed position in which the wakeboard is secured. A releasable locking mechanism such as a ratcheting mechanism, an interlocking ring mechanism, a ball bearing system or an over-centering system maintains the movable member in the closed position until a user desires to remove the wakeboard from the rack. Also, a cam mechanism transfers the actuation force to the movable member in some embodiments. In other embodiments, the accessory is secured between a rotating wedge mechanism and a second member.

A submarine is equipped with an extending apparatus on whose free end a container (4) resistant to underwater pressure is arranged, in which an essentially recoil-free gun (5) lies. The container (4) in the submerged condition of the submarine may be brought to the water surface (15) by way of the extending apparatus, and pivoted out so that one may also shoot in the submerged condition.

Compounds originally isolated from marine fungi are useful as antifouling (antibacterial and / or anti-larval settlement) agents. The compounds are 3-chloro-2, 5-dihydroxy benzyl alcohol, cyclo-(Pro-Phe),3-methyl-N-(2-phenylethyl) butanamide, and succinic acid. The compounds are non-toxic or low-toxic. They can be used alone or in combination, as active ingredients for making environment-friendly antifouling formulations / coatings.

The invention relates to a vector nozzle of a jet engine installed on a submarine. The vector nozzle is composed of a nozzle component and a control component. The vector nozzle of the jet engine installed on the submarine can change the motion direction of the submarine in water and has rapider response than a rudder. The vector nozzle is simple in structure and low in manufacturing cost; by replacing the rudder with the vector nozzle, the weight of the submarine can be reduced, the resistance can be lowered, the maneuverability can be improved, more fuel can be loaded, and the voyage range can be expanded; with two functions, a steering wheel can make the submarine to turn to left or right and can make the submarine to turn to top or bottom, and the function switching is fast and reliable.

The foldable ramp is intended to store, carry and launch relatively large size tube-launched missiles typically on board of relatively small sized naval surface ships. Accordingly, the foldable ramp comprises a frame suitable for carrying one or more canisters for launching rockets or missiles and support elements, which are pivotably attached to the frame and which are adapted to pivotably connect to the launching platform so as to allow rotary movement of the frame with respect to the launching platform. A lifting device lifts the front end of the frame whereby the rear end of the canisters displace a horizontal distance towards the rear of the ramp as said lifting device lifts the frame. Adverse effects of the aft flame of the launched rocket or missile is securely displaced to the outside of the vehicle while foldability of the ramp enables to prevent or reduce radar and eye visibility of the launcher, particularly when mounted on a naval surface ship.

A system for clearing mines and other obstacles is provided. The system mountable to a vehicle which can operate in water and on land, includes a sonar targeting system and an underwater gun system. The underwater gun system is directed by readings from the sonar targeting system and fires underwater munitions to destroy detected mines and obstacles. The pod containing the sonar targeting system and the pod containing the underwater gun system are movable to target in multiple directions with each of the pods deployed at an end of a respective deployment arm.

A method is disclosed for determining relative motion between equipment systems positioned on a structure that is subject to deformation due to vibrations, using accelerometers. Relative motion between equipment systems can introduce error into the targeting information provided to a system such as a weapons system, and thus the method facilitates compensation for such relative motion. A method is disclosed in which the raw accelerometer signals are filtered, then combined with attitude signals in a displacement calculation module (DCM). Within the DCM, the signals are manipulated to calculate, for each equipment system, the translational and rotational displacements due to hull modal vibration and the translational and rotational displacements due to force vibration. The sum of these values represent the movement of each of the affected equipment systems. Relative motion between systems is calculated as the difference between the calculated movement values.

A rocket launcher system and a method for controlling a rocket launcher system. The rocket launcher system is placed below deck on a ship to improve the ship's stealth capability and includes a launcher, a charger and a magazine containing one or more different types of rocket missiles. According to the method for controlling the rocket launcher system, an operating signal including preparation data is transferred to the rocket launcher system from one or more operators. The preparation data is transferred to a rocket missile and a charger takes the rocket missile from a magazine and charges a launcher. A hatch in the ship's deck is opened, and the launcher sights the rocket missile at a target area.

A vehicular weapons platform (30) including a plurality of barrel assemblies (10), wherein each barrel assembly includes a barrel (11), a plurality of projectiles (14) axially disposed within the barrel for operative sealing engagement with the bore of the barrel (11) and discrete propellant charges (15) for propelling respective projectiles sequentially through the muzzle of the barrel; and at least one of said plurality of barrel assemblies (10) includes a barrel which also forms a structural member of the weapons platform. In one preferred form, the weapons platform takes the form of a small combat aerial vehicle (SCAV) (30), wherein the barrel assemblies (10) form the airframe. A method of constructing a weapons platform from the barrel assemblies is also described.

The invention discloses an offshore rocket transporting and launching method, which belongs to the field of rocket offshore launching and comprises the following steps: S1, horizontally assembling rockets; s2, the assembled rocket is integrally placed in a transfer cage; s3, the transfer cage loaded with the rocket is transferred to a wharf through a transfer vehicle in a land horizontal transfer mode; s4, transferring the transfer cage loaded with the rocket to a transfer ship, and transferring the transfer cage to an offshore rocket launching platform in an offshore transportation mode; s5, hoisting the transfer cage loaded with the rocket to a rocket launching platform by using hoisting equipment; s6, the transfer cage is opened, the rocket is transferred to the launching position, and the transfer cage is hoisted away from the rocket launching platform; and S7, carrying out rocket launching. The convenience of the rocket marine launching and transferring process can be effectively improved, the rocket is prevented from being affected by the external environment in the launching process, and the good to-be-launched state of the rocket is guaranteed.

The invention discloses a naval ship passive jamming rocket projectile fixed launch flow guide device and a design method of the naval ship passive jamming rocket projectile fixed launch flow guide device. The design method of the flow guide device specifically includes the following steps that launch parameters of a launcher are obtained; according to the launch parameters of the launcher, the tail flame jetting range of the launcher is obtained in a simulation mode; according to the tail flame jetting range of the launcher, the size of a flow guide face of the flow guide device is determined; the flow guide angle of the flow guide face of the flow guide device is determined; and side flow faces are set, a flow guide device model is established according to the size of the flow guide face, the flow guide angle of the flow guide face and the inclination angle of each side flow face, and the structure of the flow guide device is optimized and adjusted. The flow guide device can smoothlyguide jet flows of jetting pipes of the launcher to the atmosphere environment, the lateral diffusion influence range of the jet flows can be controlled, and the problem that a hull structure and ship face equipment around the hull structure are damaged due to repeated scouring of the jet flows is effectively solved.

The disclosure relates to a fin stabilization system adapted to minimize roll about the longitudinal axis of the boat during sharp cornering at very high speeds. In one form, equipment such as a machine gun is mounted to the bow of the boat and targets are adapted to be engaged in high-speed maneuvers when cornering and the deck of the boat is not excessively rolled whereby blocking visibility in a turn.

A kit for building an adaptive unmanned CIED vehicle comprising a vehicle chassis having a locomotion system for moving the vehicle in an operating environment, and a controllable steering mechanism for steering the vehicle as it moves in the operating environment; one or more motors for coupling to the locomotion system to the controllable steering mechanism; a remote control unit for communication with and for controlling the one or more motors and the controllable steering mechanism; payload devices for performing tasks attributed to the vehicle; and a platform for providing the capability of adapting the vehicle to perform new tasks in view of evolution in the operating environment, the platform comprising: a casing for mounting on or in the vehicle chassis; a computing device for connection to a selection of payload devices from the payload devices, and a memory for storing computing instructions for controlling operation of the selection of payload devices; a power source for powering at least one of the payload devices; power ports connected to the power source; and data ports connected to the computing device for connecting at least one of the payload devices to the computing device; wherein the computing device, the power source, the power ports and the data ports are mounted to the casing and wherein the payload devices and the one or more motors are for mounting to either the vehicle chassis or the casing. The payload devices are plug and play devices and are connected to the platform using standardized military connectors.

A communications apparatus using an adaptive antenna having in a high frequency unit an antenna unit including a plurality of antenna elements and a plurality of adjustment units, provided corresponding to the plurality of antenna elements, for adjusting directivity of an entire antenna, the communications apparatus including an interference wave element extraction unit for extracting an interference wave element other than a requested signal from a received signal by the antenna unit when an adjustment value of the adjustment unit is perturbed in a one symbol time, and an adaptive control unit for performing adaptive control on the adjustment value such that the extracted interference wave element can be minimized.

The invention relates to a roller reefing boom (1 in FIG. 1) for a boom sail set with sail battens, preferably a mainsail (6), of a ship (2) with a partially enclosing sail stowage space (27) of aluminium or Faserplast, in which a largely planar sail (6) can be reefed or stowed by rolling it up, wherein the trimming of the sail (6) in all reefing states is achieved by the roll reefing boom (1) comprising a number of segments (11, 12, 14) which can be swung away horizontally in relation to one another, making the sail (6) that is guided by them adjustable variably according to the strength of the wind by means of internal control devices (37 and 76) with fixed profile characteristics (23a and 23b) in the depth of the profile (24).

The invention discloses a rocket launcher for a ship. The rocket launcher comprises a socket, a bomb blocking device, an orientator, an angle gauge, telescopic rods, a chassis, a fastening bolt and amagnetic seat, and the fixed chassis is arranged and is fixed on the ship through the magnetic seat, so that the possibility that the launcher turns over is eliminated; the telescopic rods are arranged on the inner sides of the orientator and the chassis, the bottoms of the telescopic rods can transversely slide on the chassis to change the supporting position of the orientator, and the telescopicrods can stretch out and draw back, so that the height and the angle of the orientator are convenient to adjust, and bullet loading is convenient.

The invention discloses a remote control water cannon system for a ship. The system comprises at least one water cannon arranged on a ship deck, a water supply unit connected with the at least one water cannon through a master water supply pipe as well as a control unit for controlling the water cannon to continuously jet water columns, wherein the control unit is arranged in a driving cab of the ship. The remote control water cannon system is characterized in that the control unit comprises a CPU (central processing unit), a control panel, an information storage unit, a signal monitoring system, a visible system, a position adjusting system, a manipulating component, a jetting button and a water cannon table rotation control unit, wherein the signal monitoring system receives a signal of an enemy ship and sends the signal of the enemy ship to the control unit; the visible system comprises a liquid crystal display and can clearly display an image of the enemy ship; the position adjusting system is used for controlling the striking angle of the water cannon; the manipulating component is used for executing adjustment of the angle of the water cannon; the jetting button is used for controlling the water cannon to jet the water columns continuously; the water cannon table rotation control unit is used for controlling rotation of the water cannon table. The remote control water cannon system is convenient to operate, high in automation degree, good in striking effect and capable of rotating in a range of 360 degrees, the height of jetted water can be adjusted, and the system can effectively defense pirates.

A vehicular weapons platform (30) including a plurality of barrel assemblies (10), wherein each barrel assembly includes a barrel (11), a plurality of projectiles (14) axially disposed within the barrel for operative sealing engagement with the bore of the barrel (11) and discrete propellant charges (15) for propelling respective projectiles sequentially through the muzzle of the barrel; and at least one of said plurality of barrel assemblies (10) includes a barrel which also forms a structural member of the weapons platform. In one preferred form, the weapons platform takes the form of a small combat aerial vehicle (SCAV) (30), wherein the barrel assemblies (10) form the airframe. A method of constructing a weapons platform from the barrel assemblies is also described.

A method and system for creating a water wall around the perimeter of a ship by pumping a high-pressure water stream through a plurality of rotational water dispensing heads positioned around the perimeter of the ship. Each of the water dispensing heads produces a water circle and the overlapping water circles create a water wall around the ship that cannot be broken by the intruders attempting to approach the ship and to climb on board. Each water heads has several jets dispensing water streams under high pressure. The water heads rotate under an impact of the water streams coming at an angle from the water dispensing jets. Thus, the entire boat is covered by a continuous water wall barrier, which does not allow for any intrusion attempts from another boat or from a pier.

A submarine is equipped with an extending apparatus on whose free end a container (4) resistant to underwater pressure is arranged, in which an essentially recoil-free gun (5) lies. The container (4) in the submerged condition of the submarine may be brought to the water surface (15) by way of the extending apparatus, and pivoted out so that one may also shoot in the submerged condition.

The invention discloses a landing method of an amphibious warship. The landing method includes the following steps: allowing the amphibious warship to keep away from a sea island, allowing a front section and a back section of the amphibious warship to submerge in seabed, and allowing front section and the back section to run to a land of the sea island; allowing fighters on an intermediate section of the warship to take off to perform collaborative bombing on a landing defense line of the sea island at the this time, wiping out the landing defense line, and then allowing the intermediate section to run to the sea island; allowing a principal force having land tanks on the intermediate section to wipe out an enemy principal force on the sea island. The landing method of the amphibious warship can achieve land war power of the warship, can improve the maneuvering characteristics of the warship, and can improve the island landing war power of troops.