A mine sweeping system including deployable horizontal antennas to establish a detection and navigation grid extending underwater from a beach to a distance offshore. A computer-controlled transmitter unit having a waveform generator and amplifier, transmits signals to each antenna, at unique frequencies and phases for different spatial locations within the grid. An autonomous underwater vehicle having multi-integrated sensors detects anomalies in the electromagnetic field caused by both magnetic and non-magnetic objects therein during underwater travel utilizing the electromagnetic field as a navigational grid. The autonomous underwater vehicle also deposits mine clearing explosives at each magnetic anomaly for detonation under command signal using the horizontal antennas which provide a means for establishing a navigation grid to permit landing craft and other vessels to navigate in the region cleared of mines.
Mine Sweeping System for Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Mines
1994
15 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Underwater Ordnance , Antennas , Ordnance , Minesweeping , Patents , Magnetic anomaly detection , Electromagnetic fields , Spatial distribution , Underwater vehicles , Grids , Navigation , Transmitters , Computer applications , Offshore , Landing craft , Mines(Ordnance) , Waveform generators , Pat-cl-340-850
Mine Sweeping System for Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Mines
NTIS | 1994
|OPERATING METHOD FOR A MINE-SWEEPING SYSTEM, AND MINE-SWEEPING SYSTEM FOR DETONATING SEA MINES
Europäisches Patentamt | 2022
|Operating method for a mine-sweeping system, and mine-sweeping system for detonating sea mines
Europäisches Patentamt | 2022
|