FIGHTING COMPARTMENT MATCH Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: armor equipment, in particular, fighting vehicles of ground forces of the lightweight category. SUBSTANCE: the fighting compartment hatch has a base, cover and a rotating block. The base is provided with a neck made in the perimeter of the hatch opening, the base is made integral with the turret top. The cover has a trough-shaped section and is installed with the convex part upwards over the hatch neck. A hole is made in the middle part of the cover installed in which are the upper and lower hemispheres engageable with the spherical surface of the journal of the rotating block, installed in whose hole is a plate for fastening of a prismatic vision device on it. EFFECT: improved combat and operating characteristics of the fighting vehicle. 4 dwg