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EP 0159391 A3 19880914 - METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE ALIGNMENT OF A PIECE OF ORDNANCE

Title (en)

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE ALIGNMENT OF A PIECE OF ORDNANCE

Publication

EP 0159391 A3 19880914 (DE)

Application

EP 84110430 A 19840901

Priority

DE 3336399 A 19831006

Abstract (en)

[origin: US4674395A] An artillery piece having a gun which is aligned on a target from a director remote from the artillery piece by first measuring, at the director, the angle formed between a line through the director with the target and a line from the director through the artillery piece, and communicating this director angle to the artillery piece. Then at the artillery piece, the angle is measured that is formed between the gun barrel and a line from the piece through the director. These two angles are added together and the gun is pivoted through an angle equal to the sum thus derived. The director angle is sighted backward away from the target. In addition the piece has a periscope and the director angle is sighted to the periscope and the tank angle is sighted from the periscope, which is an offset from the upright gun-pivot axis.

IPC 1-7

F41G 3/00

IPC 8 full level

F41G 3/14 (2006.01); F41G 3/18 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

F41G 3/14 (2013.01 - EP US); F41G 3/18 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB IT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

DE 3336399 A1 19850425; EP 0159391 A2 19851030; EP 0159391 A3 19880914; US 4674395 A 19870623

DOCDB simple family (application)

DE 3336399 A 19831006; EP 84110430 A 19840901; US 65854184 A 19841009