DEVICE FOR BREAKING DOWN ICE COVER Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC B63B35/08 B63G8/00 

FIELD: ship building.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to shipbuilding, particularly to submarine vehicles which break up ice cover. Device for the destruction of the ice cover consisting of a submarine vessel equipped with an anchor is proposed, the diameter of the paws opening must be greater than the length of the cockpit, with the help of a cable providing attachment of the vessel to the ice, and ballast tanks, which filling with the outboard water provides occurrence of the negative buoyancy, sufficient to destroy the ice cover of a given thickness. Point of the rope securing to the submarine should be aligned with the submarine displacement center. Under the ice cover on the anchor line at a distance from each other equal to half the wavelength of the static deflection of the ice, cathode and anode are installed, which are supplied with voltage from a source of direct electric current.

EFFECT: technical result is to increase the thickness of the ice cover to be destroyed.

1 cl, 1 dwg