SOUND TRANSDUCER ASSEMBLY, TOWED ARRAY SONAR, WINCH, TOWBOAT, AND METHOD FOR DEPLOYING AND/OR RETRIEVING A SOUND TRANSDUCER ASSEMBLY

摘要

The invention relates to a sound transducer assembly fortransmitting and/or receiving waterborne sound signals,wherein the sound transducer assembly has an antenna with aplurality of sound transducers and a towing cable and can betowed in the water by means of a towboat, and the soundtransducer assembly has a tensioning frame, wherein during atowing process the tensioning frame is tensioned in atensioned state, with the result that the antenna can bepositioned flexibly in a defined orientation with respect toan averaged surface of the water by means of the tensioningframe. Furthermore, the invention relates to a towed arraysonar, a winch for a towboat, a towboat and a method fordeploying and/or retrieving a sound transducer assembly and/ora towed array sonar and for receiving and/or transmittingwaterborne sound signals.