EP1850085A1 - Munitionsladevorrichtung für Militärfahrzeug - Google Patents

Munitionsladevorrichtung für Militärfahrzeug Download PDF

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EP1850085A1
EP1850085A1 EP07290477A EP07290477A EP1850085A1 EP 1850085 A1 EP1850085 A1 EP 1850085A1 EP 07290477 A EP07290477 A EP 07290477A EP 07290477 A EP07290477 A EP 07290477A EP 1850085 A1 EP1850085 A1 EP 1850085A1
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Benoît Pizon
Olivier Germenot
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    • 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
    • F41A9/00—Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
    • F41A9/50—External power or control systems
    • 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
    • F41A9/00—Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges
    • F41A9/61—Magazines
    • F41A9/64—Magazines for unbelted ammunition
    • F41A9/76—Magazines having an endless-chain conveyor

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  • the technical sector of the present invention is that of ammunition loading devices for military vehicles, and more particularly devices to reduce the vulnerability to attack of ammunition storage enclosures.
  • tank ammunition bunkers are protected by localized pre-armor thicknesses in order to minimize the probability of attack by a threat (piercing or hollow-fired projectile, heavy flare, etc.). Although the probabilities of attack are reduced, they remain real and the effects of aggression by a threat remain devastating.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a loading device that makes it possible to move the ammunition in a storage enclosure according to a real or potential threat in order to reduce the effects of the aggression of the storage enclosure by the threat.
  • the invention therefore relates to a munitions loading device in a military vehicle comprising an ammunition storage chamber and a conveyor for moving ammunition in the storage enclosure coupled to means for loading and / or unloading.
  • ammunition in the chamber of a weapon characterized in that it comprises a vulnerability control means which makes it possible to determine the positioning of the ammunition in the enclosure to adopt in terms of risks of aggression of the enclosure, means that ensures the automatic control of the conveyor and / or means of loading / unloading according to said risks.
  • the vulnerability control means is connected to a command-aiding system which comprises means of connection with means for detecting and / or evaluating a real or potential threat. to change the disposition of the ammunition based on the threat detected or assessed.
  • the invention also relates to a method for controlling an ammunition loading device of a military vehicle comprising a conveyor and an ammunition storage chamber and means for loading and / or unloading the ammunition, characterized in that moves and / or selects the ammunition so as to separate them from a spacing distance, in order to reduce the risks of propagation in the event of an ammunition explosion.
  • the ammunition is moved and / or selected in groups of at least two vertically aligned ammunition, separating each group by a spacing distance, in order to reduce the risks of propagation in the event of explosion of a munition.
  • the invention also relates to a method for controlling an ammunition loading device of a military vehicle comprising a conveyor and an ammunition storage chamber, characterized in that a threat (10; the area of the enclosure likely to be affected by the threat and the conveyor is ordered to move the ammunition in the enclosure so as to remove them from the area likely to be affected by the threat.
  • the invention also relates to a method for controlling an ammunition loading device applied to a military vehicle integrated into a formation, characterized in that the conveyor of the vehicle is controlled so as to dispose the ammunition towards the inside of the vehicle. training.
  • a computer determines priorities for positioning the ammunition and promotes ammunition positioning adapted to a rapid reloading of the weapon when the vehicle adopts a shooting phase.
  • a first advantage of the device according to the invention lies in the fact that it reduces the risk of detonation of ammunition during the aggression of their storage enclosure.
  • the risk can be reduced by adopting a relative ammunition provision to reduce the risk of mass detonation.
  • the risk can also be reduced by adopting a global ammunition provision that reduces the threat of ammunition by a threat.
  • Another advantage of the device lies in the fact that the latter can be used in addition to other protections of a storage enclosure.
  • FIG. 1 schematically shows a device for controlling the disposition of ammunition according to the invention.
  • ammunition 9 is stored in a storage chamber 1 and a conveyor 2 enables the ammunition to be moved in the storage enclosure.
  • Such a conveyor is well known and described by the patent FR2664966 . It has an endless chain of buckets each carrying a munition.
  • the conveyor is associated with means (not shown) allowing the loading and / or unloading of ammunition in the chamber of the weapon (for example a means of repression).
  • a vulnerability control means 3 which is constituted by a computer 3 incorporating appropriate software, is connected to the conveyor 2 as well as to a supply desk 6, to a firing line 4 and to a command assistance system.
  • the uses of a firing line and a supply desk in connection with a conveyor are already known and do not need to be specifically described.
  • the console 6 supply allows prior to a mission to fill the chamber 1 storage of the vehicle by determining the number and type of ammunition depending on the mission to achieve and memorize the positioning of each munition.
  • the shooter determines using the firing line 4 the type of ammunition to be loaded into the weapon according to the target to be reached.
  • the fire control 4 then directly controls the automatic loading of the weapon according to the disposition of the various ammunition stored during the loading of the enclosure and to allow shooting sequences as fast as possible.
  • the computer 3 incorporates specific software means ensuring the control of the vulnerability of the ammunition 9 in the chamber 1. This means makes it possible to determine the positioning of the ammunition 9 in the chamber 1 to be adopted according to the risks of aggression of the enclosure.
  • the device according to the invention is connected to means (not shown) for detecting and / or evaluating a real or potential threat by connection means 12 enabling the exchange of data.
  • the means 3 can ensure the automatic control of the conveyor 2 according to the risks. He will order a modification of the disposition of the ammunition according to the threat thus detected or evaluated.
  • the means of detecting a threat are means for detecting a real threat (threat identified) or potential ("sensitive" areas, detection of unidentified vehicles, etc.). These detection means can be carried by the vehicle or deportees.
  • the linkage means 12 shown in this figure are means of the radio wave communication antenna type in order to allow the communication between the vulnerability control means 3 (via the command assistance system) and the detection and detection means. / or deported evaluation, for example a satellite, a command post, a drone, or any other means likely to provide information on a real or potential threat.
  • the connection means 12 also allow the exchange of information between the vehicles to know the positioning of the vehicle in the formation and to benefit from the information from the detection means equipping the other vehicles .
  • Some means of threat assessment may be integrated into the Command Support System or Vulnerability Control System 3, for example, mapping software to identify enemy areas, friend / foe reconnaissance software, or projectile identification device.
  • FIG. 2a illustrates an example of use of the device according to the invention in the event of detection of real threats.
  • sources of threats for example enemy vehicles or buildings, air-to-surface missiles, capable of generating real threats (projectiles firing, missiles) 10a, 10b and 10c for a formation 8 of vehicles 7a, 7b and 7c.
  • the vulnerability control means 3 determines the zone of the enclosure 1 likely to be reached by the threat and commands the conveyor to automatically move the ammunition 9 into the chamber 1 so as to move them away. the area likely to be affected by the threat.
  • a method of Advantageous loading device control therefore consists in arranging, by default, ammunition towards the inside of the formation.
  • FIG. 2b illustrates an example of use of the device according to the invention in the event of evaluation of potential threats.
  • there has been detected for example by means of a drone or a satellite
  • an area 11 capable of harboring threats for a formation of vehicles.
  • the vulnerability control means 3 determines the zone of the chamber 1 likely to be reached by the threat and commands the conveyor to move the ammunition 9 in the chamber 1 according to the area likely to be reached by the threat.
  • the invention also makes it possible to reduce the vulnerability of the load by controlling displacements of ammunition capable of reducing this vulnerability.
  • the device will be used to move and / or select the munitions so as to separate them as far as possible from one another by a distance (d) of spacing, in order to decrease the risks of propagation in the event of an ammunition explosion.
  • the computer 3 has memorized during the loading phases of the chamber 1 the position of the various ammunition. The shot will then be made by successive samples of ammunition leaving intervals between each ammunition.
  • this embodiment of the invention can be from the initial phase of loading of the enclosure 1 do not completely fill the enclosure but maintain a space between each munition.
  • FIGS. 3a and 3b thus schematically represent modes of distribution of the ammunition in their storage enclosure.
  • ammunition 9 is arranged in groups of several vertically aligned ammunition, separating the groups by a spacing distance d, in order to reduce the risks of propagation in the event of explosion of a munition.
  • the distance d will be defined according to the characteristics of the munition (dimensions, load, ...) and the storage enclosure (dimensions of the enclosure and the ammunition locations, deconfinement device).
  • munitions 9 are disposed by splitting them into two groups arranged on either side of the enclosure.
  • the operation is as follows.
  • the computer or control means 3 determines priorities of positioning orders of the ammunition to be relayed to the conveyor 2, which then performs the optimal positioning as determined by the control means 3.
  • the computer 3 controls the positioning of the ammunition according to the vulnerability constraints.
  • the control means 3 determines the relevance of the threat and the zone of the enclosure 1 likely to be affected by the threat. Based on these estimates, it determines the positioning of the ammunition 9 in the enclosure 1 to adopt and orders the conveyor 2 displacement and positioning ammunition.
  • ammunition 9 (individually or in groups of at least two vertically aligned ammunition) is placed at a spacing distance d apart.
  • any instruction to the conveyor 2 is relayed by the computer 3, and the link between the conveyor and the computer is a two-way link allowing the conveyor to send the computer information relating to the positioning of the ammunition, which allows the calculator 3 to know the disposition of the ammunition in the enclosure 1.
  • the device may be coupled to threat detection means incorporated in the vehicle itself and not deported.
  • the ammunition movement control software may also have a learning capability (neural network) depending on the parameters of a mission.

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DE8628690U1 (de) * 1986-10-28 1987-04-30 Otto, Ulrich, 8221 Nußdorf Kampffahrzeuge der 3. Generation in Modulbauweise bzw. aktiver Schutzeinrichtung (Fluchtkabine)
FR2664966A1 (fr) * 1990-07-20 1992-01-24 Creusot Loire Dispositif de commande de chargement automatique d'un canon.
FR2668253A1 (fr) * 1990-10-17 1992-04-24 Creusot Loire Dispositif d'identification et de controle de munition d'une arme a feu a chargement automatique et procede pour sa mise en óoeuvre.
DE19505349A1 (de) * 1995-02-17 1996-08-22 Kuka Wehrtechnik Gmbh Verfahren zur Verwaltung von Granaten in einem Munitionsmagazin und Vorrichtung zu dessen Durchführung

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DE8628690U1 (de) * 1986-10-28 1987-04-30 Otto, Ulrich, 8221 Nußdorf Kampffahrzeuge der 3. Generation in Modulbauweise bzw. aktiver Schutzeinrichtung (Fluchtkabine)
FR2664966A1 (fr) * 1990-07-20 1992-01-24 Creusot Loire Dispositif de commande de chargement automatique d'un canon.
FR2668253A1 (fr) * 1990-10-17 1992-04-24 Creusot Loire Dispositif d'identification et de controle de munition d'une arme a feu a chargement automatique et procede pour sa mise en óoeuvre.
DE19505349A1 (de) * 1995-02-17 1996-08-22 Kuka Wehrtechnik Gmbh Verfahren zur Verwaltung von Granaten in einem Munitionsmagazin und Vorrichtung zu dessen Durchführung

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