Ordnance – Mounts – Training mechanisms
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-25
2006-04-25
Carone, Michael J. (Department: 3641)
Ordnance
Mounts
Training mechanisms
C089S041190
Reexamination Certificate
active
07032495
ABSTRACT:
A combat tank is converted into an artillery observation tank without requiring removal of the main gun. The combat tank is converted by integrating retrofitted equipment necessary for the artillery observation, especially the navigation system (12), into the vehicle turret (4) such that it does not collide with the main gun. The navigation system (12) is installed with an arbitrary orientation at an arbitrary location in the vehicle turret (4), and adjusted at this location, without requiring a complicated adjustment mechanism for the observation system, or attachment to the elevating mass. The necessary elevation values for the line of sight (21) are obtained through the evaluation of the angular values of a mirror in the mirror head, such as of a primary-target telescope (20), or through evaluation of gun-position angles.
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Grosch Hermann
Moser Hans
Carone Michael J.
Chambers Troy
Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH
Smith Stuart I.
Venable LLP
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