Rheinmetall Industrie Aktiengesellschaft

Rheinmetall Landsysteme Gmbh

Werner Hasse

Hermann Grosch

Uwe Eisenkolb

Knut Kruger

A method and a device for destroying drifting sea mines ( ). According to the invention, a capture-and-destroy device ( ) is brought into the vicinity of the drifting sea mine ( ) with the aid of a buoyant body ( ) having a coupled-on drive system ( ) or a drive device ( ), and the mine is captured in that the sea mine ( ) is surrounded by deployment of a capture net ( ) normally located in a capture unit ( ) of the capture-and-destroy device ( ). A motorized element ( ) disposed in the capture unit ( ) draws the capture net ( ) together automatically until the captured sea mine ( ) rests directly against a destroyer unit ( ) with a destructive charge ( ). The destructive charge ( ) is then automatically detonated to destroy the mine.

Method and device for destroying drifting sea mines

An unmanned armored minesweeping vehicle includes a vehicle body having a heavily armored vehicle part; a power plant accommodated in the vehicle part for propelling the vehicle; a vehicle steering control accommodated in the vehicle part; and a simulating arrangement for disguising the vehicle as a target for triggering the mines to be cleared.

Unmanned armored minesweeping vehicle

An arrangement for sweeping moored mines (8) with at least one cable cutter (4) that is arranged on a sweeping line (2) and is designed for cutting through the mooring line (9) for a respective mine (8). To achieve a relatively fast and safe destruction of the moored mines (8), in addition to the cable cutters (4), mine destruction devices (3) are also attached to the respective sweeping line (2), which devices are fastened respectively in front of the snap grippers (4) in towing direction. The mine destruction devices (3) each have on clamping device (12) that can attach itself to the mooring line (9), a buoyancy element (14) that is connected to the clamping device (12) with an unreelable line (16) and a mine destroying activator (15) that is attached to the buoyancy element (14). If the mooring line (9) hits the mine destruction device (3), the clamping device (12) detaches itself from the sweeping line and clamps down on the mooring line (9). The activator (15) then detaches itself from the clamping device (12) and rises with the aid of the buoyancy element (14) toward the mine (8). The mooring line (9) at the same time advances along the sweeping line (2) into the gripper mouth of the following cable cutter (4) and is cut by it at a position below the attached clamping device.

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