Abstract: The invention relates to a configuration in which bodies, such as, torpedoes, to be delivered, can be held in an additional container inside a torpedo tube in a submarine. This container is in the manner of an interior tube. The annular space, between the torpedo and its tube thereby formed, is used to hold damping elements, which are located individually or over the entire structure of the torpedo, and the annular space is kept free of water by means of appropriate sealing elements. There is another damping element in the rear portion of the container in the torpedo tube.

Abstract: An arrangement for receiving working devices on vehicles, especially a clearing device with rotatable clearing tools for clearing land mines, has a turning arm formed as a traverse and connectable with a vehicle to be offset relative to its longitudinal axis and to turn between a working position transverse to the axis and a transporting position along the axis, two shafts supporting the clearing tools, and a clearing frame connected with the turning arm and supporting the clearing shafts and composed of two frame parts which are turnable relative to one another about an axis extending parallel to the shafts for the transporting position and fixable with one another in the working position.

Abstract: An arrangement for releasably holding an aiming device on a gun barrel, which includes a sleeve-shaped holder arranged to be placed on the gun barrel and to thereby hold the aiming device on said the barrel; and a pressure fluid supply device arranged to supply a pressure fluid to the holder so that the holder expands and moves on the gun barrel, and also to thereafter remove the pressure fluid from the holder, so that the holder subsequently shrinks and becomes fixed on the gun barrel.

Abstract: An expelling mechanism adapted for use with discharge tubes and drain tubes of submarines for ejecting a weapon by compressed air includes a chamber formed with an outlet opening, and adapted to substantially communicate selectively with a storage container holding compressed gas, a discharge valve which may be moved towards the opening in a closing direction, and away therefrom in an opening direction at a selectable opening velocity, and a hydraulic control device for controlling the movement of the discharge valve. The hydraulic control device includes a cylinder adapted to be filled with hydraulic fluid, a piston reciprocally movable along a stroke within the cylinder, and partitioning the cylinder into two cylinder chambers, an overflow channel establishing communication between the cylinder chambers, and a connecting device connecting the discharge valve with the hydraulic control device.

Abstract: A device for determining the timely delivery of compressed gas from compressed-gas containers for ejection and discharge tubes of submarines in which the compressed gas is suppliable via a system-controlled blowout valve comprising a compressed-gas container having a pressure pick-off with a pressure gauge and a converter for producing an electrical signal representing the actual pressure value. Upper and lower desired pressure values in the form of electrical signals are adjustable on transmitters electrically connected to separate comparator stages to which the electrical signal of the actual pressure value and, in each case, one of the signals of the adjusted predetermined values are supplied and by which a timing member having a running time indicator is controlled. The timing member is started when the pressure in the compressed-gas container falls below the adjusted upper pressure value and is stopped when the pressure in the compressed-gas container reaches the adjusted lower pressure value.

Abstract: A large-bore twin-weapon system for combat vehicles, wherein the weapons are arranged in the proximity of the longitudinal side on the combat vehicle. The weapons are supported at the two ends of a horizontal carrier arranged therebetween unilaterally and rotatable independent of one another. The carrier is connected to the combat vehicle on three pivots. Two pivots define an axis of rotation for pivoting the carrier and the third pivot is formed as lifting means for the carrier.