A submersible glider with a ring wing is provided. The glider can operate in an aqueous medium. The glider can include a fuselage in a shape of a body of revolution. The glider can include a ring wing lifting surface coupled to a stern of the fuselage. The glider can include a buoyancy engine disposed within the fuselage, the buoyancy engine configured to adjust a buoyancy and a center-of-gravity of the glider in the aqueous medium, to propel the glider through the aqueous medium by leveraging lift from the ring wing lifting surface.
SUBMERSIBLE GLIDER WITH RING WING
2025-04-24
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B63G OFFENSIVE OR DEFENSIVE ARRANGEMENTS ON VESSELS , Angriffs- oder Verteidigungsanordnungen auf Schiffen |
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