Equipment for monitoring combat vehicles, especially tanks

Claim 1

In equipment for monitoring two groups of combat vehicles in the practice firing of simulated rounds, wherein each combat vehicle has a weapon, a firing button for the weapon, a laser for emitting at least one pulse of light in a direction determined by the weapon when the firing button is actuated, an optical targeting device, an optical-pulse receiver for receiving a light pulse and a display connected to the optical pulse receiver for indicating the receipt of a pulse, the improvement comprising means for monitoring the combat vehicles at a director's post remote from the combat vehicles comprising in each combat vehicle: a television camera; optical adapting means coupling the optical targeting device to the television camera; video-transmitting means for transmitting the output of the television camera to the director's post; and means for modulating a control signal onto the transmitted video signal when the firing button is actuated; and comprising at the director's post at least two video receivers each assigned to one group of combat vehicles; one television monitor for each video receiver; switching means connecting each receiver to its associated monitor and controlled by the control signal for selecting the video signal displayed on the monitor, the switching means comprising a priority circuit for applying the video signal from a selected combat vehicle in the group to the associated monitor when no firing button is actuated in any combat vehicle and for applying to the monitor for a given period of time the video signal emitted by a combat vehicle transmitting the modulated control signal.