Abstract: A retractable light turret mounted on a platform, comprising firing means that can be deployed through an opening, a protective cowling ensuring the closing of the opening and elevation and azimuth aiming means for the firing means, wherein said protective cowling has, on its external face, firstly close-in defence means and secondly at least one observation means coupled with display means arranged inside said platform.

Abstract: The invention relates to firing brake assembly for weapons of the type incorporating an actual firing brake and means to modulate the function of said firing brake wherein the modulating means are in the form of a chamber equipped with a piston delimiting an upstream chamber and a downstream chamber, the upstream chamber communicating with the gun barrel by means of an upstream circuit ensuring that part of the combustion gases are taken up and a downstream chamber filled with a fluid and communicating with the firing brake by means of a downstream circuit.

Abstract: A protection device for an observation screen of a vehicle, wherein it is constituted by a plate of armor positioned outside of the vehicle, and pivoting arms ensuring the displacement of the armor plate from a passive position in which the field of vision is totally free and one or several protection positions.

Abstract: A firing device (1) for close-in defense ammunition (2), ammunition incorporating a rigid casing (6) enclosing at least one projectile (7), casing integral with a base (8) that can be joined by linking means to a firing device base (3) incorporating means to prime the ammunition, device characterized in that it incorporates a tube (10) capping the ammunition (2) after this ammunition has been fixed onto the firing base (3), such tube that is itself made integral with the firing base (3) by attachment means (11), such tube further carrying an articulated bipod (15) enabling the orientation in elevation of the device (1).

Abstract: The invention relates to a linking pin between the chain links of a vehicle track and the connectors of these links, such pin incorporating at least one ring of a synthetic material coating, positioned between the pin and at least one link, the pin incorporating at least two supports on either side of the ring, characterized in that it comprises at least one axial bore enclosing a material incorporating a liquid phase and enabling the calories that may build up in the ring to be evacuated towards the connectors.

Abstract: A damping device for a hatch in a military vehicle used during its closing and opening, said hatch being integral with hinges hinged with respect to an interface, wherein said device comprises a tubular body integral with the hinges and hinged between two bearings integral with the interface, said body enclosing two fixed damping means between which a rod is positioned, said rod being mobile in translation to activate one of the damping means during the opening of the hatch and the other damping means during the closing of the hatch.

Abstract: A protection device for an oscillating power circuit, namely for a demining coil, such device incorporating circuit breaking means positioned between an alternating current supply network and the power circuit, such device wherein it comprises at least one means to measure and analyze the current supplying the power circuit, means able to detect the appearance of a direct current and connected to triggering means ensuring the opening of the circuit breaking means when the alternating current ceases.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dilution and dispersion device for the exhaust and/or cooling gases of a vehicle's engine, that incorporates blades and a hub. The hub of said device incorporates means intended to reduce the loss in the gaseous flow rate generated by said gases. The flow rate loss reduction means are constituted by one or several openings in said hub or by a profiled element allowing said gases to be defected towards said blades. The blades are fastened to a ring.

Abstract: A protection device for the floor of a land vehicle against mines, said device comprising at least one caisson with a convex external surface oriented towards the ground wherein said caisson incorporates a median part arranged between two lateral walls and extending over the full length of said caisson, the median part of said caisson being of a thickness (E) greater than that (e) of said lateral walls and being designed so as to transmit the stress, when a mine detonates, towards said lateral walls.

Abstract: A retractable light turret mounted able to rotate on a platform, comprising an active system orientable in elevation and in azimuth, a protective cowling for the active system closing a caisson, wherein said turret incorporates means for deployment of said active system constituted by a first and a second arm forming a deformable parallelogram arranged on either side of said active system and elevation and azimuth aiming means for said active system, said deployment being controlled by a first manual means activating said first arm, the orientation in elevation and in azimuth of said active system being controlled by a second manual means activating said second arm.

Abstract: A control device for the active steering of a vehicle comprising a driving differential that is positioned between a steering wheel and steering control means, said differential which furthermore receives at a first input a counter-steering command supplied by a turn correction motor, wherein said steering wheel is linked to a second input of said differential by non-return means preventing any force feedback from said differential to said steering wheel.

Abstract: A device to fasten a logistic container (1) onto a structure (9), such as a vehicle, such device wherein it incorporates means (16, 12a, 24) to ensure the positioning of the container with respect to the structure and means (17, 25, 26) ensuring the locking of the container onto the structure and logistic container implementing such a device.

Abstract: An assembly process for a vehicle of substantial height, process in which at least one pit is implemented that is able to accommodate the vehicle, the latter being positioned on at least one removable floor platform able to raise the vehicle with respect to the bottom of the pit, the floor platform being positioned at the required height by means of positioning means.

Abstract: A process to invert a structure, for example a vehicle body after an equipment mounting phase, namely of mobility means, on the underside of said structure, process wherein the structure is made to swivel around an instantaneous axis of rotation which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the structure, such axis of rotation being located in the vicinity of a first end of the structure, maneuvering means being positioned at the other end of the structure to control this swiveling.

Abstract: An automatic slowing down system for a vehicle taking a bend includes a computer that integrates a series of instructions to process at least one of first, second and third signals according to kinematic control laws of vehicle displacement to deliver signals for a forward motion actuator and a steering actuator, a forward control and a steering control that supply the first signal representative of a forward motion data and a steering data to the computer based on an operator's requirement, a linear speed sensor and a yaw speed sensor that supply the second signal to the computer, and a unit that supplies the third signal relating to road grip to the computer.

Abstract: A link separation device for an ammunition belt, said belt exiting a weapon after firing via an opening and in which an assembly of links (M1, M2) are mounted able to pivot angularly with respect to one another, each of said links incorporating two lateral stirrups and one median stirrup, said median stirrup of a first link (M1) of said links being able to pivot in grooves in said lateral stirrups of a second link (M2) of said links, a relative pivoting position of said first link (M1) with respect to said second link (M2) following said first link (M1) enabling said first link (M1) to be unhooked, said links additionally being positioned with respect to said device in a position such that the pivoting ensuring the unlocking and the unhooking of said first link (M1) can be made naturally by the action of gravity exerted on said first link (M1), wherein said device incorporates means to ensure said first link (M1) rocks over as well as means to guide and means to support said second link (M2) following as said

Abstract: A device to separate the links (M1, M2) of an ammunition belt, such belt exiting a weapon after firing and in which the links are mounted so as to pivot angularly with respect to one another, a relative pivoting position of a first link (M1) with respect to the following link (M2) enabling the first link to be unhooked, the device incorporating at least one tab integral with a support of the weapon and placed in proximity to the exit of the belt from the support, and able to make each link pivot with respect to the following one, wherein the at least one tab is placed above an exit of the belt, the at least one tab being pushed by the exiting of a first link (M1) against the action of a spring and which cooperates with a rear edge of the body of the first link (M1) to make it pivot with respect to the following link (M2), thus unhooking it. In alternative embodiments, the at least one tab is an elastic tab adapted to be deformed by the exiting first link.

Abstract: A device to test the good working order of a magnetic field generator, and namely a demining coil, such device comprising at least one evaluation means for the magnetic field coupled with at least one display means, device wherein said evaluation means comprise at least one wound coil able to be positioned so that the lines of the magnetic field pass through it, said wound coil linked to evaluation electronics powered by said wound coil itself.

Abstract: A logistic container intended to be made integral with a structure, such as a vehicle, and incorporating clasping means intended to cooperate with matching means carried by said structure, such container being of a geometry with several faces wherein said container incorporates at least two opening flaps each arranged on a separate face.

Abstract: A device to separate the links (M1, M2) of an ammunition belt, such belt exiting a weapon after firing and in which the links are mounted so as to pivot angularly with respect to one another, a relative pivoting position of a first link (M1) with respect to the following link (M2) enabling said first link to be unhooked, device incorporating elastic means integral with a support of said weapon and placed in proximity to the exit of said belt from this support, and able to make each link pivot with respect to the following one, wherein said elastic means comprise at least one tab placed above an exit of said belt, said tab being pushed by the exiting of a first link (M1) against the action of spring means and which cooperates with a rear edge of the body of said first link (M1) to make it pivot with respect to said following link (M2) thus unhooking it.