Equipment for monitoring combat vehicles, especially tanks

US4619615A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Wegmann & Co. GmbH · DE

Inventor

• Wolfgang Kratzenberg · Kassel, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 4, 1984
• Grant date: Oct 28, 1986
• Expiry date: Sep 4, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F41G3/2655
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Equipment for monitoring combat vehicles, especially tanks, firing practice firing with simulated rounds. Each combat vehicle has a laser that emits a pulse of light when the firing button is pressed and devices to receive and display an arriving pulse of light. A television pickup is coupled to a monitoring or targeting device in each combat vehicle and can be connected through a video section with a television monitor at a director's post. At the director's post there are at least two television monitors, each assigned to a given group of combat vehicles. As long as none of the firing buttons in any of the combat vehicles are pressed, the image supplied from the monitoring or targeting device in a selected combat vehicle will appear on each television monitor. When a firing button is pressed in one of the vehicles, the image supplied from the monitoring or targeting device in that vehicle will appear on the monitor associated with the vehicle for a predetermined period of time. Once the predetermined period of time has expired, the image supplied from the selected combat vehicle will appear again.