DRIVE OF MANUAL PROMPTING OF FIGHTING VEHICLE GUN Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC F41A27/00 

FIELD: weapons.

SUBSTANCE: invention concerns the military technics and can be used in designs of infantry fighting vehicles, tanks and another armor. The fighting vehicle drive includes the elevating mechanism of the gun and the rotary mechanism the towers containing worm reducers and the handles of manual prompting. The drive is supplied by the arm fixed on the tower. Handles are established on the arm. Axes of worm reducers of elevating and rotary mechanisms and the handle are supplied by gear wheels; each of them is kinematically connected with two wheels. One of wheels of each mechanism is connected by the corresponding handle to the flexible shaft twisted at working rotation clockwise. Other wheels are connected with each other by the flexible shaft twisted at working rotation counter-clockwise. Flexible shaft are established with a preliminary twisting in a direction of working rotation.

EFFECT: increase of fighting characteristics of fighting vehicle, namely maintenance remote manual gun prompting.

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