Patent ID: 7878138
Filing Date: 2011-02-01
Classification: B63B,B63G

Abstract:
1. An appliance for deployment and tracking of an unmanned underwater vehicle having an elongated carrier which is arranged at the end of a holding cable, having a holding apparatus, which is arranged on the carrier for holding the underwater vehicle, which holding apparatus has a controllable holding element for unlatching the underwater vehicle from the holding apparatus, and having a tracking apparatus, which is arranged on the carrier for acoustically finding the position of the underwater vehicle which is being deployed in the water, wherein the tracking apparatus is arranged at one end of the elongated carrier, the carrier is articulated on the holding cable in a central longitudinal area of the carrier such that the carrier can pivot, and a pivoting apparatus, which can be activated once the underwater vehicle has been unlatched from the holding apparatus, is provided in order to pivot the carrier from a deployment position, in which the underwater vehicle is deployed, to a tracking position, in which the tracking apparatus is located, preferably as far as possible, below the carrier articulation point on the holding cable.