Ordnance – Bomb – flare and signal dropping – Electrical and radio releases and sighting
Patent
1992-06-19
1993-07-20
Brown, David H.
Ordnance
Bomb, flare and signal dropping
Electrical and radio releases and sighting
102206, B64D 104, F41F 306
Patent
active
052295389
ABSTRACT:
A digital communication network adapts a conventional MIL-STD-1553 aircraft multiple weapons rack for carriage of smart weapons. The network is a communications, power, and signal management interface circuit which permits an existing single pylon wing RT/sub-bus to control a plurality of additional smart RT's. The network utilizes a sub-bus which includes an RT and a bus controller for the multiple stores. The output of the RT/sub-bus is divided to create a plurality of inputs to the additional RT's to establish a power and communications link with the aircraft controller. The network includes a processor which receives coded digital communications from the controller and selectively rebroadcasts those communications to one of the smart weapons on the rack designated by the coded communication. The messages received from the aircraft controller are translated into assembly language and are deciphered to either operate input/output functions or to be reconfigured into MIL-STD-1553 messages between the bus controller and the stores, or between the remote terminal and the aircraft. All operating functions of the smart weapons can be controlled from the aircraft without any physical changes to the aircraft or the weapons rack and with only minimal changes to the aircraft operational flight program.
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McGlynn Maureen P.
Meiklejohn William D.
Brown David H.
Gore Gregory J.
M. Technologies, Inc.
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