Process and apparatus for attacking rotating wing aircraft

Details Process and apparatus for attacking rotating wing aircraft Process and apparatus for attacking rotating wing aircraft

1991-01-18

1993-01-05

Jordan, Charles T.

Ordnance

Waging war

102405, F42B 1268

Patent

active

051773163

ABSTRACT:
The missiles of the present invention are guided toward the rotating wing aircraft that are their targets by acoustic guidance and control systems that home in on the acoustic signatures of their targets, and that do so despite echoes, the acoustic signatures of other weapons, targets hidden by the terrain during nap-of-earth flight, etc., and attack their targets by deploying cables that are impacted by the rotor blades of these rotating wing aircraft. These cables are deployed close enough to their targets to defect maneuvers intended to avoid them by deployment initiated by the change in intensity of the perceived acoustic signatures of the targets.
The missiles of this invention can also be made self-launching, and when the launch triggers that make them so are responsive to the acoustic signatures of their targets, those protected from line-of-sight weapons by the terrain become vulnerable to these "mines".

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