Diehl Bgt Defence Gmbh Co., Kg

Diehl Defence Gmbh & Co. Kg

Diehl Bgt Defence Gmbh & Co.

Andreas Ganghofer

Geoffrey Staines

Jürgen Urban

Axel Pfersmann

Peter Kreuzer

Roland Müller

Markus Baehr

Markus Bähr

A motor vehicle has a body with an opening that can be closed by a preferably pivotable cover and a box-shaped metallic reflector that is open towards the opening for receiving an HPEM source and that is reversibly insertable into the opening. The reflector is connected to the body by an earth connection following insertion of the reflector. The earth connection is implemented by a brush strip containing fibers of a conductive material that connects the box-shaped reflector to the body circumferentially on all sides in the region of the opening.

Motor vehicle and reflector for a motor vehicle

In order to make it possible to direct sufficient microwave energy at a target with an electronic device which is to be interfered with or to be destroyed, the beams () from at least two antenna arrays () are focused on an effective area () in the vicinity of that target, preferably from a vehicle () which is equipped with these arrays (). For effective super-imposition of the emitted microwave energy () in the emission direction of in each case one of the arrays (), the use of an arc for discharging the capacitance () of the resonator via its spark gap () is observed, and is recorded quasi-continuously optoelectronically. The electrode separation of the spark gap () or the fluid pressure of the dielectric in the vicinity of the spark gap () is then varied by control elements such that all of the spark gaps () in an array () ignite virtually at the same time, so that their discharge current pulses which lead to the emission of the microwave energy () start virtually in phase.

Microwave generator

A motion-restraint arrangement () with elongate lines of elements (), wherein each line of elements () has a number of individual elements () which can be erected by spring elements () from a small-volume thin storage condition into a large-volume active condition. Each respective individual element () has flexible lateral edge elements (), which in the active condition define a parallelepiped. The spring elements () extend in spatially diagonal relationship between the corners () of the respective parallelepiped (). A motion-restraint arrangement () which is easy and inexpensive to produce and which has optimum restraint properties is obtained in that the spatially diagonal spring elements () are formed by spring wires (), which extend in a zigzag shape in the longitudinal direction of the respective line of elements ().

Motion-restraint arrangement

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Röthenbach, Germany

Andreas Ganghofer