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Tzn Forschungs-und Entwicklungszentrum Untlerluss Gmbh

Helmut F Neff

Alexei Voronov

Thomas Weise

Gert Schlenkert

Gerhard Glotz

Dirk Kilfitt

Uwe Aulenbacher

Jurgen Heinrich

Josef Osthues

Dieter Langhans

Klaus Klameth

Peter Haberacker

Peter Steffen

Manfred Johnk

Brigitte Nitsche

Hans-Dieter Liess

Walter Meyer

Joachim Beeck

An apparatus for coating the inside of a metal tube with an electrically conducting material, including first and second electrode assemblies supported within the tube. The axially spaced electrode assemblies each include a main electrode. The main electrode of the first electrode assembly is supported on the inner tube face via an insulating member. The second electrode assembly has an auxiliary electrode connected to the main electrode of the second electrode assembly and to the tube. A wire is secured to and extending between the main electrodes. A current source is connected to the main electrode of the first electrode assembly and the main electrode of the second electrode assembly through the tube and the auxiliary electrode for passing an electric current pulse through the wire for causing an explosive vaporization thereof, whereby particles of the vaporized material form a layer on the inner tube face.

Apparatus for internally coating a metal tube

A method of coating an inner face of a metal tube with an electrically conducting coating material includes the steps of positioning a wire, made of the coating material, generally axially in an interior of the tube, along the inner face thereof; and passing an electric current pulse of sufficient intensity through the wire to cause an explosive vaporization thereof, whereby particles of the vaporized material impinge on the inner face of the metal tube and form a layer thereon.

Method of internally coating a metal tube by explosive evaporation of the coating substance

A method of destroying hidden land mines includes steps of providing a hole in the ground of a mine-contaminated area; placing into the hole a device which generates a shock wave by wire explosion; connecting the device to a switchable current source; and applying a current pulse from the current source to the device for causing a wire explosion thereof to generate a shock wave in the ground for destroying mines hidden in the area within the effective range of the shock wave. The device has a plastic tube filled with a liquid; a wire passing through the liquid; and electrodes disposed at opposite ends of the tube. The wire is connected to the electrodes, and the electrodes are connectable to a current source for applying a current pulse from the current source to the wire to effect explosion thereof for generating the shock wave.

Method and apparatus for destroying hidden land mines

A device for protecting an optical component from a laser beam. The device includes a carrier which is light-pervious in a predetermined spectral range and is positionable in an expected path of a laser beam directed to the optical component; and a metal oxide film applied to the carrier. The film is light-pervious in the same spectral range and is oriented such as to intercept a laser beam directed to the optical component.

Device for protecting an optical component from laser beam damage

In order to be able to automatically locate and map ammunition over a large area without endangering the searching crew, ground-scanning sensors are mounted on a relatively light-weight, unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle which then travels over the area contaminated with ammunition. The controlled vehicle is controlled from, and the sensor signals are evaluated in, a second vehicle which is generally disposed in the immediate vicinity of the area being examined. The controlling vehicle, which is preferably armored, also accommodates the operating crew.

Arrangement for locating below-ground ammunition

An acceleration sensor includes a silicon substrate with a micromechanical bender bar constituting a testing mass having one end mounted the silicon substrate and a free end opposite the one end. A ferromagnetic core is mounted on the free end of the micromechanical bender bar. An excitation coil is supported on the ferromagnetic core for furnishing an inhomogeneous magnetic field when supplied with an alternating current. A cooled superconducting quantum interference detector (SQUID) arrangement is mounted adjacent the ferromagnetic core for detecting changes in the inhomogeneous magnetic field produced by the excitation coil and produces a useful signal in dependence of changes in the inhomogeneous magnetic field.

Acceleration sensor

To obtain high contrast images of objects which are in an area covered with rich vegetation and which additionally are given a camouflage coating, the wavelength specific differences in reflection behavior of the clutter and of the camouflage coating of the object are utilized. For this purpose, the apparatus according to the invention includes at least two image pick-up elements, particularly CCD cameras, whose output signals are fed to a signal processing arrangement whereby are combined. On the side of the object, respective optical filters are disposed in front of the image pick-up elements so as to cause each image pick-up element to have its maximum sensitivity in a different spectral range.

High contrast image apparatus employing optical filters to cause each

A projectile equipped with an infrared target seeking system at its bow and an arrangement for correcting the flight course of the projectile, with the target seeking system having at least one deflection device for scanning the target area. To obtain a rosette-shaped scanning pattern of the target area without the use of gyro stabilized mechanical systems, the projectile rotates about its longitudinal axis and the target seeking system includes a laser which is followed by a beam deflecting device which deflects the laser beam periodically and linearly within a fixed scanning plane passing through the longitudinal axis of the projectile. Preferably the laser beam is also amplitude modulated.

Projectile equipped with an infrared search system at its bow

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Hermannsburg, Germany

Helmut F Neff