FIELD: military hardware.
SUBSTANCE: military tracked vehicle propulsion unit heating system contains a heater, coils of oil tanks, heated engine cavities, heated jackets of oil-priming pumps, pipelines. The heating system also contains a command control and generation unit, a control panel, a diesel fuel heating coil in a fuel consumed tank, an additional fuel tank, fuel temperature sensors in additional and fuel consumed tanks, a fuel heater in the additional fuel tank and in the fuel pipeline, fuel valves. The command control and generation unit is connected to the control panel, fuel temperature sensors, diesel fuel heaters and fuel valves.
EFFECT: start-up and steady operation of the propulsion unit is achieved at negative ambient air temperatures due to coil installation in the fuel consumed tank.
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2015-04-20—Published
2014-07-08—Filed