Ammunition and explosives – Drop bombs – With direction controlling means
Patent
1993-03-26
1999-03-09
Tudor, Harold J.
Ammunition and explosives
Drop bombs
With direction controlling means
102387, 102489, 23926527, 244 52, 244 322, F42B 1066
Patent
active
058803963
ABSTRACT:
Process for guiding an elongated missile, equipped with booster motor, sustainer, power source, control electronics, payload, and search head, from above, upon a target, such as a helicopter, where the missile, after ballistic flight, is braked before the target area by a drogue chute and is diverted into a position that is essentially perpendicular to the earth's surface over the target area so that the search head of the missile, which is suspended from the drogue chute, will be pointed downward, whereupon, after the search head has locked on the target, the drogue chute is separated and the missile is guided to the target by the sustainer, characterized in that, immediately prior to, before, or after the moment of drogue chute deployment, a lateral motor, located in the center of gravity of the missile, is turned on so that, first of all, in order to accelerate the tilt-off of the missile into the vertical, there is generated a force that is added vectorially to the force of gravity and that thereupon one can counteract the missile's rolling, pitching, and yawing motions, that take place during the search phase that follows the tilt-off, so that the missile is stabilized, as well as missile for performance of said process.
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