Daimler-benz Aerospace Ag

Deutsche Aerospace Ag

Wolfgang Von Hoessle

Ernst-August Seiffarth

Kuno Roder

Elmar Albert

A coil support and a winding arranged thereon, especially one including a fiber-optic waveguide, whose turns are mutually fixed by a binding agent. The binding agent drys while a volatile solvent diffuses off. The coil support is permeable to solvent and is designed such that it has essentially the same coefficient of thermal expansion as the winding. This achieves the uniform, thorough drying of the binding agent over the entire winding and reduces the risk of damage to the fiber-optic waveguide during the transportation and the unwinding of the winding in a coil form.

Coil form

The invention provides an apparatus for the remote control of missiles or torpedoes launched from a launching container, by means of a cable of which a portion is wound onto a supply reel connected with the launching and of which the other portion is wound onto a supply reel in the missile or the torpedo. The supply reel in the launching container is arranged on the forward end of the container, and the supply reel in the missile or torpedo is arranged on the rearward end of the missile or torpedo. The cable section between the two supply reels, before the launching of the missile or torpedo, is fastened along the major portion of its length on the interior wall of the launching container, by means of a gluing arrangement which consists of a material whose combustion temperature is at least by 800.degree. C. lower than the melting temperature of the optical waveguide, or by means of a flexible clamping arrangement whose holding force can be adjusted.

Apparatus for the remote control of missiles or torpedoes

A missile optical waveguide for the transmission of signals is wound as a package body, can be withdrawn from the package body during missile flight, and is provided with an outer coating having a rectangular outer contour and a wall thickness which is cross-sectionally non-uniform and is thickest in the corner areas of the outer coating. The coating can be provided with embedded fiber reinforcements, whereby the light-signal-transmitting glass fiber of the optical waveguide is effectively protected from unacceptably high tensile and pressure loads which interfere with the quality of the transmission. The winding volume is thereby reduced and problem-free axial withdrawal of the optical waveguide from the package body is ensured.

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Riemerling, Germany

Wolfgang Von Hoessle