HLU-196 Battery Charger
HLU-196 Battery Charger
Summit Products designed and manufactures the HLU-196 Battery Charger used with the Breeze Eastern HLU-196 Munitions Hoists for the US Navy. Two HLU-196 batteries can be charged independently of each other. The charger is deployed on aircraft carriers world wide, as well as used at ground bases.
This photo shows the HLU-196 Battery Charger assembled to the Breeze Eastern provided battery box with two batteries.
Summit Products designed and manufactures the HLU-196 Battery Charger used with the Breeze Eastern HLU-196 Munitions Hoists for the US Navy. Two HLU-196 batteries can be charged independently of each other. The charger is deployed on aircraft carriers world wide, as well as used at ground bases.
This photo shows the HLU-196 Battery Charger assembled to the Breeze Eastern provided battery box with two batteries.
HLU-196 Bomb Hoist
Breeze Eastern manufactures the HLU-196D/E bomb-hoisting unit, a lightweight, portable unit designed to load various weapons/stores on naval aircraft. The bomb hoisting unit consists of a gear-driven mechanism, battery-operated motor, cable drum assembly, load brake assembly, battery pack, electronic controller, battery charger, A/C adapter, removable boom assembly and a 19-foot cable assembly.
The entire unit weighs 123 pounds. It has a direct, single-point lift capacity of 1,500 pounds. A double-point lift capacity of 3,000 pounds is obtainable by using various trolleys and rack adapters that are available.
The entire unit weighs 123 pounds. It has a direct, single-point lift capacity of 1,500 pounds. A double-point lift capacity of 3,000 pounds is obtainable by using various trolleys and rack adapters that are available.
HLU-196 in use
HLU-196 battery powered Munitions Hoist in use on a US Navy Aircraft Carrier during the first days of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Personal assigned to the “Black Aces” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 41, prepares to lift a GBU-12 laser guided bomb aboard nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68).
Personnel assigned to Patrol Squadron Sixteen (VP-16) use an electric bomb hoist to load an AGM-84D Harpoon missile onto a P-3 Orion.