Defense research ship

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Defense research ships are ships on behalf of the armed forces research and surveying tasks take at sea. In contrast to civilian research vessels , military research vessels are also used to test military equipment and materials and usually have a mixed crew of civilians and military personnel.

Duties and equipment

The main tasks of defense research ships are in the military-relevant basic research in the areas of water- borne noise , geophysics , ship acoustics , underwater location and communication. The ships are also investigating local sound location conditions to assess and improve the performance of sonar systems in various marine regions. For this purpose, they are often equipped with special underwater location systems such as diving or towing sonars, which are otherwise only used on warships . In addition to the detection of submarines and torpedoes , the knowledge gained is also used to locate mines or can be used against asymmetrical threats such as divers.

Another task is to use it as a test vehicle for newly developed equipment, such as unmanned underwater vehicles ( UUV ), which are tested at sea under operational conditions. In addition to the function of the vehicle, the facilities of the infrastructure, such as the required loading cranes or mounting devices, are also checked.

Defense research ships are also used in the development and testing of new weapon systems, primarily for sea trials with torpedoes. Modern ships of this type have built-in torpedo ejectors on board for this purpose. The German ship Planet even has an underwater torpedo tube similar to a submarine.

In addition to research tasks of a military nature, studies of a civil nature such as marine cartography or weather observation are also carried out .

Ships

literature

  • Jürgen Gebauer, Egon Krenz. Marine Encyclopedia Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus in the Dorniermedienholding, Berlin 1998, Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-411-05504-9 , page 438

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NOAA's Ronald H. Brown (Engl. Wikipedia) research vessel of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration