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- 1. Soft Rail Launch & Recovery Patent # 7156036B2 Soft Rail – Catalyst for Innovation and Progress
- 2. This presentation has been prepared by Creative Technology Applications, Inc. (the “Company”), and the information contained herein has not been independently verified. This presentation does not make any explicit or implicit representations or warranties and no undue reliance shall be placed on the accuracy, fairness or completeness of the statements or information contained herein. None of the Company nor any of its affiliates, advisors or representatives shall have any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising in connection with the statements or information contained herein. You are cautioned not to rely on any of the forward-looking statements contained herein. Disclaimer: 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 3. 12/16/2010 Launch & Recovery (L&R) CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 6. Today small boats are launched/recovered by “over the side” systems, such as cranes & davits CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission Today’s L&R Practice U.S. Navy Photo 12/16/2010
- 8. Exposes our Men to Enemy Detection,
- 9. Alerts the Enemy Our Men are Being Deployed,
- 10. Ship Motion when DIW – Increased Danger to our Men
- 11. Takes too much Time
- 12. L&R Dependent on Sea State
- 13. VERY Expensive SOFT RAIL SOLVES THESE ISSUES ! 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 14. AVOID THIS: and… THINK OUTSIDE THE USUAL DAVIT/CRANE BOX How Can This Be Done? 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 15. ’s SOFT RAIL ELIMINATES SEA STATE PROBLEM VERY FAST LAUNCH SIMPLE RECOVERY REDUCED MANNING REDUCED COST (est. ~1/5 current solution) EFFECTIVE COVERT ROBUST 21st Century L&R Solution 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 16. Service Disabled Veteran Technology Company Ron Seiple President & CEO Retired Navy Seal Captain Decorated Vietnam Combat Veteran Navy R&D Lab Master of 1st SWATH Ship Developed many L&R systems Science Advisor to COMPACFLT CO Navy Minesweeper, Mobile Diving Unit XO Commander Pacific Fleet CO Special Operations Command Holds 20 U.S. Patents CTA - Background 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 17. Dramatically Larger Payload = 20,000 lbs.+ Cheaper = by ~5 X ie: $1M vs. $5M+ Faster = Launch in under 1 min. (40 sec. during test) Simple Multiple Vehicle L&R = RHIB, Boat, UAV, UUV Soft-Rail – Competitive Advantage 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 18. 12/16/2010 Soft Rail Approach Soft Rail In Action: Benefits: L&R at Speed Take advantage of stability at 20-40ft depth L&R in the wake “sweetspot” Do L&R fast (<1 min) Improve Safety Maintain payload versatility Robust Cost Effective For a movie demonstration of Soft Rail in action, please click through to the location below : http://www.creativetechnologyapplications.com/Soft_Rail.html CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 19. Soft Rail Design Parameters Depth = 10m Launch Height = 4.0m Soft Rail Length = 56m Scope Angle = 9.46° to water Scope Ratio = 4:1 Payload = 9200kg Soft Rail Tension = 26000kg Payload to Tension Ratio = 0.35 Tow speed = 15 knots Dive Force = 5632kg Drogue Drag = 22,528kg (Modeled) 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 20. 12/16/2010 A Chouest Ship CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission C Commando
- 21. 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission Soft Rail Deck Gear & RHIB
- 22. CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission Soft Rail D/d System 12/16/2010
- 23. 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission Soft Rail Ready to Deploy
- 24. 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission Soft Rail Launch
- 25. LARGE 20,000 lb. LAUNCH PAYLOAD 12/16/2010 Soft rail tension-------- ~50Klbs Depth of drogue-------- ~30ft Tow speed ---7.5 m/sec (~15Kts) Surface condition-------- SS2-3 Launch height---------- ~ 12ft Length to water line ----- ~ 100ft Soft Rail Width-------- --- ~ 9 ft Drogue drag--------------50Klbs Wing dive force------------10Klbs Scope Ratio------------------4:1 Single soft rail line--------2 inch D (UHMWPE) cable Max Tensile Strength(dual)-265Klbs Max Working Load(dual) - 100Klb Safety Factor-----------------5:1 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission Soft Rail System Example:
- 26. 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission Soft Rail UUV Concept
- 27. UAV Landing on Recovery SLED 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 29. Safe
- 31. Fast
- 32. Robust
- 33. Cost Effective
- 34. Sea State 4 Achievable
- 35. Proven At Sea12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 36. Soft Rail Conclusion 12/16/2010 “We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action …” -- U.S. Senate "The only easy day was yesterday!" - US Navy SEALS motto Yet today the L&R systems that bring the Navy Seals to the enemy were created during WWII. CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 37. Solve Major L&R Problems U.S. Navy Need U.S. Army Need U.S. Coast Guard Need SEALs Support Foreign Interest (Spain & Israel) L&R Large UAVs Ongoing CTA Support Patents The Opportunity 12/16/2010 CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 38. 12/16/2010 Potential New Business CTA Confidential - May Not be Reproduced Without Permission
- 39. Thank You ! Soft Rail – Catalyst for Innovation and Progress
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Development of shipboard launch & recovery systems (LARS) to deploy and recover various payloads from a ship at sea are increasingly integrated into the day-to-day operations of naval and commercial maritime operations, from ocean platform inspection, to search-and-rescue, to surface and antisubmarine warfare. At the same time, the use of small manned vehicles is also on the rise, whether high-speed boats on Coast Guard ships or on research vessels. The need to operate both manned and unmanned vehicles from the same platform is of increasing importance, and so are the means to quickly and safely launch and recover a wide variety of such vehicles – which are evolving at a rapid pace
- Small boats and Unmanned vehicles are becoming a mainstay of a ship’s ability to meet its mission. They are used for variety of missions including, anti-terrorism/force protection, visit board search seizure, surveillance, special operations, and humanitarian relief. With the growing importance and frequency of small boat use, the importance of the systems to launch and recover them also grows.The Navy and Coast Guard have been trying for years to operate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles from ships. However, launch and recovery of these vehicles has heretofore been impossible except for the smallest of these platforms. These smaller UAVs are extremely limited in range, payload and operational capability. The need to launch and recovery multiple types of vehicles from the same ship is of increasing importance especially for the Littoral Combat Ships.. The ability to effectively launch and recover: surface platforms, unmanned undersea vehicles and large unmanned aerial vehicles from the same system would be a major contribution to the operational capabilities of the Navy and Coast Guard.
- The Navy and Coast Guard ships use a variety of over-the-side launch and recovery systems that are classified as either davits or cranes.. A relatively new approach using stern ramps has shown some success but they remove significant displacement from the ship, are very operator intensive and sea state limited.Now, both changing fleet missions and aging systems are leading to modernization and back-fit efforts – yet none of the proposed solutions address the many needs and problems.
- Recent GAO report was extremely critical of the LCS launch and recovery systems. They were said to be complex, require too many personnel to operate and were operationally limited: “…the Navy deferred testing of the ship’s launch, handling, and recovery system—a system instrumental to deploying and recovering mission package elements that, if not performing adequately, will impair LCS capability.” -- GAO ReportThese problems appear to be common place for most launch and recovery systems. Of course, these issues apply to all things that need to be deployed and recovered by ships at sea including UUV’s, SEAL Delivery Vehicles (SDV’s) and UAV’s.
- Soft Rail is an out of the box solution to these age old problems. It represents a major paradigm shift from typical Launch and Recovery Systems. It is not an evolutionary system but rather a revolutionary system for Launch and Recovery as you will see in the slides that follow.
- Soft Rail represents a “MAJOR” cost and personnel savings for the Navy and CG. Soft Rail is a proven system that provides a cost effective solution that will greatly enhance the L&R Capability our armed services. The CTA developed “Soft Rail” system is an elegant – yet simple solution to the Launch and Recovery problem facing the Navy today. A Soft Rail prototype system was developed and demonstrated under DARPA funding. Soft Rail offers a revolutionary change in Launch and Recovery from surface ships. It has successfully demonstrated its capability in the waters off Pearl Harbor, supported by the Navy Seal organization. Soft Rail offers reduced manning, simplicity, cost savings, high sea state capability, and launch and recovery while the ship is at speed. In addition, it offers the ability to launch and recover a variety of platforms including, surface vessels, RHIB's,UUV’s, USV’s, SDV’s and even UAV’s of significant size without major system modifications.
- After a long and decorated career with the U.S. Navy and as a senior executive in private industry, Ron Seiple founded CTA in 2005 to address several of the opportunities and problems that he had become all to familiar with while serving in the Navy.One of those opportunities became what is now called “SOFT RAIL” to address the current limitations of the Launch and Recovery systems being used today.Under a very successful contract from DARPA andthe Center of Excellence in Research and Ocean Sciences, CTA designed engineered and tested SOFT RAIL in the waters off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- This cartoon illustrates our approach to launch a typical RHIB vehicle.A launch platform is required either on the fantail or the transom.A trailer-like device under the RHIB, is attached to the rails by rollers to slide the payload up and down. Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Cables are used, spaced about 8 ft apart. The key to this system is the Depressor/drogue device shown underwater. This system is designed to hold the depressor/drogue at a prescribed depth, maintain stability and creates drag for the necessary cable tensioning. The cable under tension turns into a very stable rail and provides a simple but effective lowering and recovery device for payloads. The system remains stable at the air/surface interface thereby eliminating much of the motion normally experienced by traditional systems.
- We Launch and Recover at speed for two reasons; First – ships are more stable when underway and second – mission secrecy.The most stable spot near a ship at sea is below the surface. We use this for our stability! We position the Soft Rail system at the wake or “sweetspot” where the water is smoothed by the underway motion of the ship to perform Launch and Recovery Soft Rail is fast! Which makes for less time to be exposed to the dangers of surface conditions (a launch typically takes less than 1 minute and was done in 40 seconds during trials). We load and off load personnel on deck. No dangerous transfers over the sides.We are able to launch and recover just about any payload with little modification.Soft Rail can easily be utilized on almost any ship. We can even perform launch and recovery from containers. Soft Rail is operated by very few personnel – a simple and cost effective system.
- The C Commando is the SEAL support ship in Hawaii used for the Soft Rail testing. Soft Rail Launch and recovery can be installed orremoved on most ships in less than an hour. The C Commando was an excellent ship to conduct these initial tests. It was speed limited to 10 kts with our system deployed. This limitation in speed reduced our launch and recovery payload capacity.
- Shown here is a Zodiac 540 series RHIB loaded on the Soft Rail System. It is in the stowed position on deck. It is raised off deck to clear the 42” rail.
- This photo is the Depressor/drogue portion of the Soft Rail system being launched. We slowed to 2-3 kts for it’s launch and recovery. The demonstration did not include a rapid launch and Recovery of the Depressor/drogue. This design functioned extremely well. The D/d was not difficult to deploy and recover and took only a few minutes.
- The line seen in the center of this photo is what was used to lower and raise the payload. For our purpose the system was designed to provide the ability to change launch and recovery angles. This is accomplished using the large hydraulic cylinders on each side. The purpose of this was to examine different launch and recovery angles.
- Launch is so stable that one crewman is comfortably standing while the RHIB was fully suspended on the Soft Rails. This is in direct contrast to the individuals that were in the safety boat being launched at the same time from the ships crane.
- We have been asked many times, “what is the payload limit of Soft Rail.” The limitation in our testing was the speed of the C Commando (11kts max) and not our system’s design. The important factor is that significantly heavy payloads could be deployed using Soft Rail as shown.
- Another potential application for Soft Rail is for the launch and recovery of Underwater Vehicles. This is an artist’s concept of a UUV recovery. The heart of this approach happens after the UUV is linked up to Soft Rail net deployed underwater at slow speed. On hookup the ship or USV increases speed to develop the required cable tension. Once this tension is achieved, the UUV can be easily hauled on board.
- Soft Rail System represents a tremendous opportunity to replace the outdated WWII Crane & Davit systems for L&R or the newer stern ramp systems with their massive displacement,with new SOFT RAIL capabilities heretofore thought impossible, and do it safer, faster and cheaper.Soft Rail will significantly increase operational parameters while simultaneously decreasing risk and cost. The ability to adapt to nearly any payload is a significant benefit that Soft Rail gives to the Navy and the CG, not the least of which is a major breakthrough capability to Launch and Recover UAV’s of significant size from most any Navy/CG vessel. This ability has the potential of making ships operate more independently of carriers and extend their at sea foot print significantly and to take our armed forces from antiquated WWII Launch and Recovery systems to a 21st Century solution that will protect our troops and save lives.Soft Rail– Catalyst for Innovation and Progress
- Increase Sales - $100M to $250M++ (excluding commercial and foreign sales)Respond to growing need for an effective L&R SolutionExpand the Navy’s and CG’s mission capabilitiesPromote the concept of Soft Rail on every ship (Revenue estimate understated)Develop a new base of revenue growth, recurring revenue, and profitEnhance LCS Mission capability and answer ALL of the GAO questionsTake Advantage of growing foreign interest in Soft Rail (Spain & Israel)
- This graph isn’t an attempt to forecast actual numbers of ships Soft Rail will be deployed on, but the suggestive quantity shown in the graph certainly expresses that the potential runs to almost 800 ships with a need for Soft Rail.The potential for Soft Rail is certainly measured in hundreds of Millions of dollars – and the potential to reach $1 Billion is possible in the hands of a major contractor, especially if the large UAV application proves to be a winner – all of which excludes foreign sales. (We currently have very active interest from the Spanish Navy for several systems and initial inquiries from the Israeli MOD)