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Method and device for destroying drifting sea mines

US6612244B1 · kind B1 · utility

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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	Sep 2, 2003
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 14, 2020

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB63H2025/028
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

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.

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