Ships – Warships
Patent
1983-07-29
1985-11-19
Blix, Trygve M.
Ships
Warships
114 5, 89 3701, 34082505, B63G 100, B63G 900
Patent
active
045534934
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a warship in accordance with the precharacterising part of patent claim 1.
In a known warship of this kind (German Pat. No. 20 56 069) a significant rationalisation is obtained during manufacture in that the weapon units, the fire control units, the floodlight units and/or the position finding units are prepared on standard platforms outside of the ship in special factories, and in that the standard platform provided with the unit then only needs to be mounted on a standard foundation provided in the hull of the ship. The known system of standardised operating units not only makes it possible to manufacture warships economically but also makes it possible to change out obsolete units in a simple manner, simply by removing the standard platform carrying the old unit from the standard foundation and by replacing it with a platform equipped with a modernised or new unit. This can take place within a very short period of a few days, whereas previously months of conversion work were necessary for this purpose. The modernised or new unit can namely also have been previously prepared in a special factory on a suitable standard platform.
To the extent that apparatus located outside of the container, for example an antenna mounted on a mast, needs to be arranged relatively high above the deck of the ship, the container can be housed at a suitable location in the ship, and can be connected with the apparatus mounted at a remote location via a line. The command post unit is also preferably housed in a container in the interior of the ship.
All the units mentioned here are standardised operating units which is intended to mean that, as far as possible, all of the total elements necessary for the operation of the unit are contained in as compact a form as possible in the unit so that a complete interchange of the unit is possible without a great deal of disassembly work. The standard operating units are in particular housed in containers which--to the extent that they are not located in the interior of the ship--should each be closed at the top by the mentioned standard platform on which the apparatus belonging to the unit (for example a cannon) is mounted.
Two or more different standard foundation/standard platform types (for example of different dimensions) can also be provided.
A problem with the known system of operating units lies however in the fact that information transmission lines between the individual units of the ship and between the units and the command post unit must be present in a very large number. By way of example approximately 200 km of data cable must presently be laid within the ship in order to be able to effect all the information transmissions between the units and the command post unit. For this purpose cable tracks must be constructed and the cables laid, secured, cast to the bulk heads, and provided with plugs. This not only signifies a considerable amount of work but also brings about a quite considerable increase in the weight of the ship which is undesirable. Particularly disadvantageous is the fact that on replacing old units with modernised or new units all the cabling apart from the current supply must be newly executed. Despite the advantages provided by the system of standardised operating units this represents a considerable disadvantage and it should be born in mind that some of the standardised operating units require up to 40 pjugs with, in each case, up to 40 pins in order to be able to effect the required exchange of information with other units or with the command post.
The object of the invention is thus to provide a warship of the initially named kind in which the mechanical standardisation through provision of standardised operating units, and in particular standard foundations and standard platforms carrying the units, is supplemented by an electronic standardisation which makes it possible not only to considerably reduce the costs of and effort of cabling between the units and the command post, but also makes it possible to dispense with the nee
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Sadler Karl-Otto
Schmidt Willy
Blix Trygve M.
Blohm & Voss AG
Swinehart Edwin L.
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