Atlas Elektronik Gmbh

Ralf Richter

Detlef Lambertus

Jörg Kalwa

Sven-Christian Hesse

Christian Blohm

Oliver Jung

The invention concerns a group of vessels (), having an unmanned surface vessel () and an unmanned underwater vessel (), wherein the underwater vessel comprises a location device, in particular a sonar device, for sensing location data () in the underwater area and one evaluation unit or more evaluation units, and the evaluation unit or the evaluation units are arranged in such a manner that these comprise detection means () for detecting () a contact (MILEC) with the aid of the sensed location data () and with classification means () for classifying () the detected contact (MILEC) as a mine-like contact (MILCO) or non mine-like contact (NONMILCO), whereby classification is accomplished by comparing the contact (MILEC) with known mine information so that a mine-like contact (MILCO) can be identified as a mine contact (MINE) or as another object (NOMBO).

Method for detecting naval mines and naval mine detection system

With an unmanned underwater vessel having a pressure hull, drive assembly and at least one ancillary device arranged on the pressure hull, for example a propeller protection apparatus (), the at least one ancillary device () is fixedly connected to a lifting body (), which has a lower density than the density of the water, in order to make it possible to replace the ancillary devices or to arrange additional ancillary devices on the pressure hull without changing the trim of the underwater vessel as a result. The density and volume of the lifting body () are selected such that the lifting force acting in the water on the ancillary device () and the lifting body () compensates for the force of gravity acting on the ancillary device () and the lifting body ().

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Oyten, Germany

Ralf Richter