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7350744 System for changing warhead's trajectory to avoid interception  
A system for increasing a warhead's chance of hitting a target comprises a system for causing the warhead to deviate from its projected trajectory so that it will have an increased chance of...
7348918 Mobile ballistic missile detection and defense system  
The present invention is directed towards a ballistic missile detection and defense system. The system of the present invention comprises a ship based interceptor or antiballistic missile, a...
7339537 Capacitive drive antenna and an air vehicle so equipped  
Disclosed are antenna embodiments and air vehicles so equipped that include a first antenna component, and a second antenna component, separated by a free space gap, where the antenna embodiments...
7333044 Rocket-powered sensor target assembly  
A rocket tube for housing a reloadable rocket motor is connected to a spacer element and a wire-rider element. A sensor target for reflecting radar signals is screwably attached to the rocket tube....
7275691 Artillery fire control system  
An indirect artillery fire control system is shown, in which a plurality of indirect artillery systems are linked with a fire direction system such that a call for fire order is communicated as a...
7219853 Systems and methods for tracking targets with aimpoint offset  
A target identification and tracking system includes a carrier vehicle and one or more tracking vehicles. The carrier vehicle may determine an aimpoint of a target from a high resolution image of...
7193556 System and method for the measurement of full relative position and orientation of objects  
A system for measuring a position and orientation of an object in flight relative to a reference coordinate system is provided. The system including: three or more illuminating sources, each...
7190304 System for interception and defeat of rocket propelled grenades and method of use  
A method for intercepting and a defeating rocket propelled grenade (RPG) which includes the steps of detecting a thermal signature from a launch of the RPG; and cueing a narrow beam radar which...
7185845 Faceted ball lens for semi-active laser seeker  
A wide field-of-view optical system that may be used in determining a direction to a source of light, or for determine steering corrections to direct a vehicle toward a target, is disclosed. The...
7175130 Missile steering using laser scattering by atmosphere  
A guidance system for a missile with a laser beam source located at a distance from the missile generating a modulated laser beam that is directed towards the missile. A group of backward looking...
7150428 Beam laser atmospheric scattering trajectory guidance  
A guidance system for a missile utilitizes a laser beam source at a missile launch pad to generate a laser beam that is directed towards a target. A sensor on the body of a spinning missile detects...
7121502 Pseudo GPS aided multiple projectile bistatic guidance  
A guidance system for guiding each of several projectiles toward a moving target has a platform having a radar system for illuminating the target with a radar signal. Each projectile has a receiver...
7104496 Active protection device and associated apparatus, system, and method  
An interceptor device for protecting a platform against an incoming threat is provided. The interceptor device comprises a housing and a countermeasure device. At least one detonating charge is...
7083139 Method for guiding a rocket  
Method for guiding a rocket ( 1 ) to a target, wherein, the rocket ( 1 ) being equipped with automatic guiding means with an image-formation device ( 10 ) and means for correction of the trajectory...
7079070 Radar-filtered projectile  
Disclosed is an autonomous radar guidance of an otherwise radar-directed projectile (RDP). The preferred embodiment uses an inexpensive radar receiver with an inexpensive slow wave antenna, placed...
7066427 Active protection device and associated apparatus, system, and method  
An interceptor device adapted to protect a platform associated therewith against an incoming threat having a trajectory by intercepting the threat in an intercept zone is provided. Such an...
7059560 System for determining the target range for a laser guided weapon  
A system for determining the distance between a target ( 4 ) and a laser guided weapon traveling towards the target ( 4 ). The system ( 1 ) comprises a laser designator ( 5 ) on a remote platform (...
7039367 Communications using unmanned surface vehicles and unmanned micro-aerial vehicles  
A communications system and method utilizes an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) capable of collecting data about an environment in which the USV resides. At least one micro-aerial vehicle (MAV),...
7036767 Projectile seeker  
The present invention relates to a projectile seeker which comprises: (a) A hollow in the projectile for accommodating a light sensor; (b) A light sensor located within said hollow for sensing...
7032856 Modern thermal sensor upgrade for existing missile system  
A method of mapping a first array to a second array is useful where (1) each of the arrays has pixels in sequential columns and rows and the first array has sequential integers identifying each row...
7023380 RF attitude measurement system and method  
A simple RF system tracks a missile, bullet or artillery round and determines the instantaneous attitude of the spinning projectile while in flight. The system is particularly useful in...
6964396 Automatic accel voltage tracking system for an ion thruster  
A voltage tracking system for an ion thruster includes a discharge chamber, a screen grid, an accelerator grid, and an accelerator grid voltage controller. The discharge chamber contains plasma at...
6926227 Extended range, light weight laser target designator  
Pulse integration is utilized on board an optically guided missile or other ordinance device used as a part of a target designation system for extending the lock-on range of the missile by...
6910657 System and method for locating a target and guiding a vehicle toward the target  
A vehicle guidance system. The system includes a first mechanism for tracking a vehicle based on time-of-arrival information associated with energy emanating from the vehicle and providing vehicle...
6877691 High altitude stripping for threat discrimination  
A technique is provided that uses a dual mode seeker (IR and LADAR) for precise target dynamics measurement, which extends stripping to a much higher altitude than ground based radar. Initial...
6860448 Deployable projectiles  
A method for protecting a second location against a first projectile fired from a first location at the second location. The method includes: firing at least one second projectile toward the first...
6845938 System and method for periodically adaptive guidance and control  
A system and method that guides a device to an object using periodically adaptive guidance. The guidance and control system creates a reconstructed line-of-sight (LOS) vector to avoid system...
6842138 Target designation system  
A target designation system for indicating a target to be destroyed by remotely guided ordnance comprising a receiver arranged to produce a receiver output signal in response to an incident...
6817568 Missile system with multiple submunitions  
A multi-staged missile includes a booster and a submunition delivery vehicle that has one or more submunitions. The booster rapidly accelerates the submunition vehicle, and then separates from the...
6808139 Guidance for missle systems with target tracker and additional manual track point correction  
A guidance method for guidance systems is disclosed. The method includes forming a target track point with a target tracker. The method corrects the track point with a manual correction signal. A...
6795174 Tracking systems  
A system for tracking a projectile utilizing a laser beam modulated by an acousto-optic cell. Transponders distributed on hemispheres around the rear of the projectile detect the scanned beam and...
6755372 Air launch system interface  
An airborne missile launch system. The system includes a Harpoon aircraft command-launch control set (HACLCS) system, one or more Harpoon Block II missiles, and an interface controller coupled to...
6724341 Autonomous onboard absolute position and orientation referencing system  
An autonomous onboard absolute position and orientation referencing system provides a means of efficaciously and economically embedding guidance and control components into the fins of supersonic,...
6705566 Active mirror guidance system  
An active mirror guidance system for a vehicle is disclosed. The guidance system includes active mirrors to track a target. The mirrors are moved in response to disturbances detected by sensors or...
6672533 Method and guidance system for guiding a missile  
The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for guiding a missile. In accordance with the prior art, the angle position of a target ( 9 ) when the missile ( 3 ) is expected to...
6666401 Missile defense system with dynamic trajectory adjustment  
A missile defense system includes a tracking station for monitoring the course and/or trajectory of an incoming missile. The incoming missile course and/or trajectory information is communicated to...
6653972 All weather precision guidance of distributed projectiles  
A system and method ( 32 ) for measuring line-of-sight angular rates for all-weather precision guidance of distributed projectiles ( 16 ) and a guidance system ( 10 ) based thereon. In accordance...
6651004 Guidance system  
A method and apparatus for directing a pursuing vehicle, such as a torpedo, on an intercept trajectory from a launching vehicle to a target vehicle with evasion capabilities. The guidance system...
6610971 Ship self-defense missile weapon system  
The present invention provides a ship self-defense missile (SSDM) weapon system for launching a plurality of light weight missiles from an existing vertical tube launch infrastructure. The system...
6572052 Process and device for determining roll angle  
A process for determining roll angle of a body launchable from a launcher. At least one inducing field is induced in the launchable body. A polarized carrier wave is transmitted from the launcher...
6568629 Method and device for magnetic guidance, especially for tracking targets  
A process and a device for electromagnetic guidance of a craft, applied in particular to the tracking of targets. Guidance is carried out with respect to the axis of the beam of a monopulse...
6568627 Side-scatter beamrider missile guidance system  
The Side-Scatter Beamrider Missile Guidance System projects into the guidance field a pulsed beam that is spatially encoded with azimuth and elevation scans of pre-determined angles. This pulsed...
6494140 Modular rocket boosted penetrating warhead  
A modular boosted penetrator (BPEN) is disclosed that includes a penetrating warhead in tandem with a booster motor. The modular BPEN can also include suitable guidance and control systems. The...
6491253 Missile system and method for performing automatic fire control  
A missile system and method for performing automatic fire control in which a reconnaissance vehicle is used to gather video reference information of a target and this information is then...
6488231 Missile-guidance method  
The invention relates to a missile guidance method, more particularly for anti-armor projectiles fired directly at a target. In order to avoid missing a target by a narrow margin, the invention...
6484966 Target-detection device for a missile system  
The invention relates to a target-detection and target-alignment device for a missile system whose field of view is expanded by a wide-angle lens system, which does not contain any optical...
6483455 Device for the unambiguous measurement of the roll of a projectile and application to the correction of the path of a projectile  
A device for the unambiguous measurement of the angle of roll of a projectile, comprises at least a radar equipped with means of processing and sending a signal to the casing of the projectile in...
6469783 Solid state modulated beacon tracking system  
A system ( 16 ) for tracking a missile ( 22 ) in flight, the missile ( 22 ) having an optical beacon generator ( 32 ) that outputs a modulated signal ( 26 ) having a predetermined frequency,...
6467721 Process for the target-related correction of a ballistic trajectory  
In order to perceptibly reduce the inevitable trajectory scatter or spread of ballistically fired projectiles in the target area without the technological expenditure involved in automatic...
6455828 Method for remote controlled combat of near-surface and/or surface targets  
The invention relates to a method for combating near-surface and/or surface targets such as tanks or the like by using a missile comprising a seeker head, an effective charge and at least one...
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