MINE-LAYING VEHICLE Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: defence equipment, in particular, ground mobile systems of remote mine laying. SUBSTANCE: mine-laying vehicle is a self-propelled mount with a bearing, armor, displacement hull, which accommodates a hoist carrying the mine planter. A container for cassettes with mines, consisting of two flat hinge-joined blocks, is installed on slides on the mine planter turnable. The turnable is furnished with a twinned crank mechanism hinge-joined to the bases of the blocks used for setting the elevation of the cassettes with mines by moving apart the block bases from the vertical traveling position. At the same time the crank mechanism serves as a locking device fixing the container blocks in the traveling and working positions. EFFECT: improved design. 4 cl, 7 dwg