Stacked Buoyant Payload Launcher

Abstract

A submarine buoyant payload launcher system includes support rails extending longitudinally along an interior surface of a submarine missile capsule. A plurality of hold downs are spaced along the length of each rail and are retractable into the support rails. Once a payload is in position within the rails, the hold downs adjacent to the top end of the payload are rotated to their closed position, so as to contact the payload. Another payload can then be loaded within the rails until the payload contacts with the closed hold downs. As in the case of the first payload, the hold downs adjacent to the top end of this next payload are rotated to their closed position. Multiple payloads can be loaded within the rails in this manner.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 14, 2013
Accession Number
ADA601779

Entities

People

  • Paul J. Carrerio

Organizations

  • Naval Undersea Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air
  • Attorneys
  • Compressed Air
  • Diameters
  • Information Operations
  • Inventions
  • Launchers
  • Launching
  • Patent Applications
  • Seabed
  • Standards
  • Submarines
  • Technology Transfer
  • Torpedo Tubes
  • Tubes
  • Undersea Warfare
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) EDI Research and Innovation.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers