Patent ID: 7111544
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: F41A

Abstract:
1. An artillery gun having a heavy weapon disposed on a carrier vehicle and comprised of a plurality of modules that are at least partly separable from one another and at least partly combinable with one another, including: a first module, which contains the weapon, which is mounted on a gun mount so as to be pivotable in elevation and rotatable in azimuth, and also contains at least a portion of an automatic projectile feed mechanism, wherein said first module includes a projectile transfer arm that is pivotably mounted on a trunnion of said weapon and is moveable, independently of said weapon, in or parallel to a plane of elevation of said weapon, wherein disposed on a free end of said projectile transfer arm, in a region rearwardly of said weapon, are a charger and a ramming device, wherein in a raised position of said projectile transfer arm, said charger is aligned with an axis of a bore of said weapon, and in a lowered position of said projectile transfer arm is oriented vertically; a second module that contains further portions of the automatic projectile feed mechanism including a projectile transporter having a transport arm on an end of which is disposed a pivotable gripping device, and a standby member that is disposed rearwardly of said projectile transporter, wherein said standby member is displaceably guided in a transport rail and is adapted to be disposed in a transfer position parallel to said charger; a third module that is embodied as a munitions magazine in which projectiles are stored upright such that a respective projectile is adapted to be grasped out of said munitions magazine via said projectile transporter and, accompanied by rotation and orientation, to be conveyed via said standby member and said charger into a region rearwardly of an end of said weapon and to be raised into a loading position; at least one fourth module that forms the carrier vehicle, wherein said carrier vehicle represents a motor vehicle embodied as a wheeled vehicle having at least three axles, and wherein said first and fourth modules are connected to form a common first unit, and a fifth module forming a further carrier vehicle and corresponding in construction to said fourth module, and wherein said second and third modules are connected with said fifth module to form a common second unit that is independent of said first unit.