METHOD OF BREAKING THE ICE COVER Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC B63B35/08 

FIELD: navigation in ice conditions.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to submarines that destroy the ice cover with resonant flexural gravity waves. A method of ice destruction is proposed, in the implementation of which a body with positive buoyancy is placed under the first crest of the vessel behind the stern and towed at the speed of the vessel. In the process of towing, the body is given a zigzag movement in a horizontal plane.

EFFECT: increasing the thickness of the destructible ice cover.

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