USA As Represented by Secretary of the Navy

Richard M Beard

John J De Matteo

Arthur P Stevens

A quick deployment vehicle (QDV) for implanting a transponder or beacon on he ocean bottom in an upright position exposed for receiving or transmitting acoustic signals. The vehicle includes a ballistic body of separable fore and aft sections. The fore section includes a core mass for penetrating the ocean sediment, and the aft section includes a beacon for signal transmission. A predetermined interval after impact, as determined by a programmed deceleration profile stored in memory, the sections will separate. The sensed deceleration of the vehicle is compared at predetermined intervals to the stored profile, and when the sensed level is less than the stored level, a squib is fired to separate the two sections. The aft section penetrates and remains exposed above the sediment, while the fore section further penetrates into the ocean bottom.

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Richard M Beard