ABSTRACT
Submarines carrying an external weapon module (the module can be divided into UUV, missile, torpedo, etc.) play an important role in promoting the underwater combating ability in current and future warfare. Referring to the literature, studies on motion modeling and simulation of submarines carrying external weapons are rather rare. Applications about submarines carrying external weapons are mainly about the mine layer box and UUV (Fan, 1995; Qian, 2003; Sirmalis, 2001); on the aspect of study of submarines’ external carrying, the domestic research is mainly about conducting calculations of the hydrodynamic coefficient of the submarine-carrying pod (Yang, 2009). While on the aspect of submarine space operation simulation, foreign scientists have carried out much work in the theory of submerged maneuverability, security, attack elusion effect validity, onshore manipulation, simulation training, and comprehensive display centralized control (Fu, 1992; Xia, 1992; John, 1978); domestic research has also made many achievements (Hu, 2006). Based on the achievements mentioned above, in this paper, modeling simulation and initial analysis for the motion of the submarine carrying an external weapon module are conducted.
