An impulse tank is provided in the free flood compartment of a submarine to pressurize a launcher tube from sea water that has been pumped into the tank for this purpose. T-he tank is defined in part by the submarine hull and in part by a diaphragm bladder that is designed to expand into the free flood compartment during this pressurization.
Elastomeric Launcher
1992
4 pages
Report
No indication
English
Underwater Ordnance , Ordnance , Launchers , Submarine hulls , Tubes , Patents , Bladders , Compartments , Floods , Oceans , Pressurization , Sea water , Submarines , Water , PAT-CL-89-1.81
NTIS | 1978
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