Weapon system

US6067890A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall W & M GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Thiesen · Willich, DE
• Helmut Ortmann · Duisburg, DE
• Jurgen Bocker · Oberhausen, DE
• Dieter Jungbluth · Selters (Westerwald), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 17, 1998
• Grant date: May 30, 2000
• Expiry date: Apr 17, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F41G3/04
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A weapon system (1) having a weapon (2) with a weapon tube (3) and having an electronic system (4) for generating aiming signals for an aiming system (7) connected to the weapon (2). To ensure that the current weapon properties or tube properties are also considered in a simple manner for the determination of the aiming signals, the respective weapon-specific data are stored on a chip card (13) associated with the weapon (2) and are transferred via a chip card reader (11) to the corresponding electronic system (4) required for the determination of the aiming signals. During this process, the weapon-specific data are updated on the chip card at predetermined time intervals.