COMBAT INSTALLATION Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: defensive weaponry. SUBSTANCE: combat installation includes fairing, rotary part, swinging part with weapon and intermediate bearings with output shafts. Intermediate bearings are anchored on rotary part, under fairing and are kinematically coupled to swinging part. Separable rods with flanges for mounting of additional armament and protruding beyond limits of fairing are fixed on output shafts under fairing. Salient feature of invention consists in that trapezoidal cams are made on butts of output shafts and their outer surface carries screw thread. Rods also have trapezoidal cams, coupling nut and bearing collar for interaction with cams and screw thread correspondingly. On outer surface of nut protruding beyond fairing there are formed positions for key and teeth with which stopping unit put of rod interacts. EFFECT: enhanced precision and operational characteristics of combat installation thanks to formation of backlash-free quickly separable joint of rod with output shaft of intermediate bearing. 2 dwg