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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...
7296520 External telemetry unit  
An external telemetry unit for a projectile. The external telemetry unit comprises a shell adapted to be inserted between the front of the projectile body and the fuze, a flexible battery and...
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...
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...
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...
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),...
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...
6919846 Slot antenna for artillery ammunition  
A slot antenna for the fuse of artillery ammunition, is provided through a sandwich structure in which an axially divided resonator ring chamber axially enclosed between upper and lower metallic...
6914554 Radar beam steering with remote reflectors/refractors  
A reflected energy detecting device includes a transmitter for transmitting an electromagnetic signal and a receiver for receiving a reflected electromagnetic signal. An antenna may be operatively...
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...
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...
6845303 Micro-satellite and satellite formation for inverse and distributed proximity operations  
A method and apparatus for conducting proximity operations is disclosed. The method called inverser proximity operations includes maneuvering an active vehicle into general proximity to a target...
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...
6804495 Wireless communicator link from towed/surrogate decoy transmitter to the host aircraft  
The present invention relates to a towed/surrogate decoy transmitter connectable via the tow cable to a platform or host aircraft using a wireless communicator link, the link providing useful...
6772086 Process to determine impact location  
A process to determine the impact location of a transmitter-bearing object which is released for tracking purposes or to hit a target within a geographical area, wherein data obtained from the...
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,...
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...
6615734 Munition article with antenna for satellite navigation  
A munition article is to be provided with an antenna which, by virtue of a characteristic which is uniform all around, permits interference-free reception of items of satellite navigation...
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...
6568628 Shipboard point defense system and elements therefor  
A combined defense and navigational system on a naval Vessel is disclosed. The disclosed system includes a track-while-scan pulse radar which is controlled to provide either navigational...
6564146 Tracking system for providing position information  
Processing GPS signals received at moving targets and at a fixed location near instrumentation associated with timing and recording an event allows the determination of instantaneous target...
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...
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...
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...
6450442 Impulse radar guidance apparatus and method for use with guided projectiles  
An impulse radar guidance system and method for use with a spinning projectile. The system and method tracks the flight of the spinning projectile using an all-weather radar or tracker. A linearly...
6349898 Method and apparatus providing an interface between an aircraft and a precision-guided missile  
An interface between an aircraft and a precision-guided missile having automatic target recognition capability receives target image data and target location data from the aircraft, translates the...
6318667 Stealth weapon systems  
A winged bomb is launched from a launch aircraft and glides to a target. During the glide the winged bomb follows a calculated guide path stored in a on board computer, with correction generated by...
6307514 Method and system for guiding an artillery shell  
A system and method for guiding an artillery shell in flight which includes a multi-element antenna having a large central access hole therein for receiving an airfoil actuator pin, the antenna...
6271464 Electronic magnetic interference and radio frequency interference protection of airborne missile electronics using conductive plastics  
A detector assembly which includes an electrically conductive, two-piece, molded plastic housing including a relatively rigid bulkhead portion having a groove and a second dome portion having a...
6244536 Air to air homing missile guidance  
An air to air homing missile guidance algorithm based on a state-dependent Riccati equation solution of a spherical-based nonlinear intercept representation of the intercept kinematics problem. The...
6237496 GPS guided munition  
A tail fin assembly for a munition having a housing configured for attachment to the munition, at least one flight control surface, an actuator for effecting movement of the flight control...
6186441 Device and method for determining the impact point of a ballistic missile  
In an aiming or sighting device and an aiming method for determining the impact point of a ballistic flying body such as a rocket or a tube weapon projectile, specific characteristic values of the...
6176451 Utilizing high altitude long endurance unmanned airborne vehicle technology for airborne space lift range support  
A mobile space lift range system using a ground control station and an unmanned airborne vehicle that relayed data to and from a space lift vehicle to control it. The unmanned airborne vehicle may...
6142412 Highly accurate long range optically-aided inertially guided type missile  
An optically-aided, inertially guided missile. The inventive missile includes a receiver for accepting guidance commands from a source located on an independent frame of reference relative to the...
6142411 Geographically limited missile  
A self destruct mechanism for an airborne projectile is provided. The projectile includes a navigation system which provides an absolute global position of the projectile. The position is compared...
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