Method and device for destroying drifting sea mines

US6308633A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• RHEINMETALL LANDSYSTEME GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Hermann Grosch · Bad Doberan, DE
• Werner Hasse · Hamburg, DE
• Uwe Eisenkolb · Lüneburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 14, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 30, 2001
• Expiry date: Jan 14, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A method and a device for destroying drifting sea mines (5). According to the invention, a capture-and-destroy device (11) is brought into the vicinity of the drifting sea mine (5) with the aid of a buoyant body (12, 22) having a coupled-on drive system (13) or a drive device (24), and the mine is captured in that the sea mine (5) is surrounded by deployment of a capture net (16) normally located in a capture unit (11.1) of the capture-and-destroy device (11). A motorized element (17) disposed in the capture unit (11.1) draws the capture net (16) together automatically until the captured sea mine (5) rests directly against a destroyer unit (11.2) with a destructive charge (15). The destructive charge (15) is then automatically detonated to destroy the mine.