ARMORED VEHICLE Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: transport facilities, in particular, armored vehicles practised on a large scale in military equipment and in some branches of national economy. SUBSTANCE: armored vehicle has a running gear and an armored hull with the engine-transmission assembly and automatic fire extinguishing system including temperature sensors and an extinguisher sprayer, control device, whose inputs are connected to the temperature sensors and vehicle power mains, a cylinder with extinguisher connected through a pipeline to the sprayer and having a membrane, its punch and an explosive charge, whose input is connected to the control device. The vehicle has a warning device connected to the interior through a pipeline, and igniters, and the cylinder is furnished with an additional membrane punch and a powder charge connected to the igniters through a blasting fuse. Use is also made of new couplings connecting the introduced components to the standard ones and to one another. EFFECT: improved design. 3 cl, 3 dwg