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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...
7273194 Weapon guidance system  
The centroid of the discrete components forming the overall radar return from a target onto which a homing weapon is being guided may not coincide with a desired aimpoint on the target. Herein...
7264198 Time-to-go missile guidance method and system  
A method and apparatus for guiding a vehicle to intercept a target is described. The method iteratively estimates a time-to-go until target intercept and modifies an acceleration command based upon...
7249730 System and method for in-flight trajectory path synthesis using the time sampled output of onboard sensors  
Disclosed are a system, method, and program storage device implementing the method, of data fusion, wherein the method comprises determining pre-launch data affecting a flight of a self-sensing...
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...
7183966 Dual mode target sensing apparatus  
A dual-mode target seeking apparatus having a seeker dome defining an aperture and transmissive to microwave frequency energy of a first frequency and to light wave energy at a second frequency and...
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...
7076342 Attitude sensing apparatus for determining the attitude of a mobile unit  
An attitude sensing apparatus for determining the attitude of a mobile unit is provided that can reliably estimate an alignment angle between a GPS antenna coordinate system and an IMU coordinate...
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...
7043343 Method for testing a missile time-space-position unit for missile  
A method for testing the performance of a Missile Time-Space-Position Information Unit. The method is utilized for Functional, Acceptance and Qualification test of the Missile Time-Space-Position...
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),...
6969025 Servo actuation systems  
A dual servo system for a seeker actuator comprises a seeker head gimballed on a platform and driven in the pitch and yaw senses by respective fast, i.e. high bandwidth low ambit, servo...
6961007 Gaze-actuated information system  
A method for providing a pilot with information associated with at least one region of a field of view visible to the pilot from within a cockpit without requiring a visual display. The method...
6952179 Radar system  
A dual mode radar seeker comprising a wide-band passive anti-radar antenna system ( 3 ) at the rear of a radome ( 1 ), operating at relatively low radar frequencies in an amplitude comparison...
6933877 Multiple-antenna jamming system  
The Multiple-Antenna Jamming System (MAJS) is useful for missile-borne jamming of active protection system radars that operate in close proximity to the frequency band of the missile's radio...
6919840 Integration of a semi-active laser seeker into the DSU-33 proximity sensor  
A proximity sensor for use with a guidance system of a smart bomb including a ranging radar proximity sensor configured for mounting on a smart bomb and a radome connected to the ranging radar...
6889934 Systems and methods for guiding munitions  
A method of guiding a munition to a target transmitting one or more signals is described. The method includes configuring the munition with a radio frequency receiver, an antenna for the receiver...
6883747 Projectile guidance with accelerometers and a GPS receiver  
A projectile guidance system without gyros in which the projectile has an orthogonal body coordinate system. The projectile has a triax of accelerometers providing x, y and z acceleration data...
6851645 Non-coherent fresnel direction finding method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus for finding a relative direction of received radiation is described. The received radiation is incident upon a window system at an angle and is transmitted therethrough. The...
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...
6830213 Wireless guidance system  
A wireless means of guidance for a device in accordance with the present invention includes receiving signals from at least one wireless base station indicating at least a respective position...
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...
6817296 Imaging-infrared skewed cone fuze  
A fuzing system for non-spinning or substantially non-spinning weapons is implemented by means of wide angle optics providing at least forward-hemisphere coverage, an array of infrared detectors...
6806823 Passive radar detector for dualizing missile seeker capability  
Applicants' Passive Radar Detector for Dualizing Missile Seeker Capability incorporates passive RF detectors into a standard active MMW seeker missile with a minimum requirement for hardware...
6789763 Method for operating an air-to-air missile and corresponding missile with autonomous or semi-autonomous modes  
A method for operating a short range, air-to-air missile carried by an aircraft flown by a pilot. The missile includes a seeker operative to track a target. The method comprises providing a first...
6768927 Control system  
The invention relates to a control system to which a state vector representing the states of a controlled system is applied. The control system provides a correcting variables vector of optimized...
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...
6726146 Multiple model target tracking with variable sampling rate  
A method of maneuvering target tracing is disclosed. The present invention relates to the field of target tracking and more generally to a method of employing multiple model and variable sampling...
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,...
6691947 Repetitive image targeting system  
The present invention includes a system and method for accurately locating moving targets. The system includes a targeting aircraft that has a radar system with a simultaneous SAR radar/moving...
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...
6596976 Method and system for pointing and stabilizing a device  
A method and system for pointing and stabilizing a device that needs to be pointed and stabilized with a desired direction, are disclosed, wherein current attitude measurement and attitude rate...
6592070 Interference-aided navigation system for rotating vehicles  
An interference-aided navigation system for a rotating vehicle provides rotation angle estimates using interference or jamming signals. An antenna receives interference signals and desired...
6588699 Radar-guided missile programmable digital predetection signal processor  
A digital predetection signal processor having a main channel processor, a dual path processor and at least two digital filters for filtering digital guidance signals before the signals are input...
6575400 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...
6520448 Spinning-vehicle navigation using apparent modulation of navigational signals  
Attitude of a spinning vehicle is determined by observing at least one of the apparent amplitude modulation and the apparent phase modulation of a navigation signal received from a navigation...
6481666 Method and system for guiding submunitions  
A submunition for delivery in a carrier, the submunition including a satellite aided global location system guidance system mounted on the submunition for guiding the submunition towards a...
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...
6398155 Method and system for determining the pointing direction of a body in flight  
A method to determine the direction in which a spinning projectile is traveling. A solar sensor array on the projectile is used to calculate the orientation of the axis of rotation of the...
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...
6279851 Topography-aided guidance system and process  
In missile guidance systems, knowledge of the target's flight policy and doctrine, along with an analysis of local topographic features, are used in a minimum commitment guidance policy. By...
6273362 Composite window transparent to electromagnetic radiation for use in supersonic and hypersonic target-tracking missiles  
The invention relates to a window for use in a supersonic or hypersonic target-tracking missile, the window being transparent to electromagnetic radiation. The window consist of several window...
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...
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