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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8001902 | Signal transmission surveillance system A system and method of detecting, processing, and selectively responding to radio frequency transmissions detected by at least one projectile deployed above a geographic area. ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7360489 | Non-lethal cargo projectile A non-lethal cargo projectile comprises a projectile body; a fuze adapter attached to a front of the projectile body; a fuze attached to the fuze adapter; a boattail attached to a rear of the projectile body; a pressure tube extending from the fuze adapter to the bo... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7262395 | Expendable sonobuoy flight kit with aerodynamically assisted sonobuoy separation A flight kit that can be retrofitted to existing navy sonobuoys. The preferred embodiment gives sonobuoys the capability of self-deployment, allowing them to be sent to a location remotely without the use of manned aircraft or recoverable unmanned air vehicles. This... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7252270 | System and method for launching a missile from a flying aircraft System for launching a missile from a launch region within the atmosphere of a planet, the missile being located within a flying vehicle before launching the missile, the system including a missile support coupled with the missile, and a foldable control-surface mec... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7142035 | Signal generator circuit and level shifter with signal generator circuit A signal generator circuit prevents a shift of a timing at which an output signal at high voltage level changes from a timing at which an output signal at low voltage level changes, and a level shifter prevents a through current from flowing between a high voltage p... | 11/28/2006 |
| 6978717 | Infrared camera deployed by grenade launcher A projectile in a cartridge designed to be launched from a grenade launcher. The projectile is adapted to be secured to the housing of the cartridge. The projectile includes a camera contained in the projectile body and connected thereto by a cord, and a transmitter... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6968785 | Locking and stabilizing device for grenades The locking and stabilizing device for grenades utilizes a solid nylon ring and multiple nylon ribbons that are attached to the ring at regular intervals around its circumference. During storage, the ring surrounds and locks the slider of the grenade in its storage ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6931994 | Tandem warhead A tandem warhead for destroying a target, the tandem warhead including a kinetic energy rod section with a plurality of lengthy individual projectiles, a blast fragmentation section deployable proximate the target, and a guidance subsystem for deploying the projecti... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6902405 | Simulator apparatus with at least two degrees of freedom of movement for an instrument A simulator apparatus with at least two degrees of freedom of movement for an instrument that has an elongated shaft, having a holding device for the instrument, the holding device being designed such that the instrument has at least a first degree of freedom of a s... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6782829 | Non-lethal cargo projectile A non-lethal cargo projectile includes a projectile body; a nose cap attached to a front of the projectile body; a boattail attached to a rear of the projectile body; a fin assembly including a boom attached to the boattail; a parachute assembly disposed in a front ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6484641 | Cruise missile downed airman decoy A cruise missile, such as the Tomahawk cruise missile, is adapted to deploy decoys in an area as the missile progresses along its preprogrammed course. Each decoy is shaped to be compatible with and ejected from the Tomahawk and has a preprogrammed contro... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6293202 | Precision, airborne deployed, GPS guided standoff torpedo A standoff delivery system is responsive to GPS coordinate signals and in-flight GPS signals to deploy a torpedo at a remote location that avoids the limitations and hazards attendant conventional deployment by full size aircraft. A gliding rigid winged u... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6144899 | Recoverable airborne instrument platform The recoverable airborne instrument platform accurately determines its present position and uses this data to execute a predetermined flight plan and ultimately guide its descent to a predetermined landing site. This is accomplished by installing the inst... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5880396 | Process for guiding a flying object and flying objects 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... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5760330 | Method and apparatus for conveying a large-calibre payload over an operational terrain A delivery apparatus (11) for full-calibre submunitions or the like payloads (12) which are coaxially stacked in its load space (19) results in a system which operates in a fault-free manner when, for ejecting the payloads (12), detachment of the load spa... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5668346 | Submunition For attacking semi-hard target objects (21) even in a semi-covered position (for the avoidance of the munition-technical expenditure on the intelligent search-fuse submunition with P-charge against hard targets), there is provided a scatter munition whose... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5460422 | System for the tilting of a suspended object with tensioning roller for suspension line In a system for the tilting of a suspended object, this object is suspended from a suspension point by three suspension lines, the suspension lines being each fixed to the object by a fastening point. A suspension point is deflected and tautened by a roll... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5398614 | Ram air inflated decelerator deployment flaps A cover or apron interposed between a ballute and the aft cover of a submtion for delaying deployment of the ballute and preventing the ballute from contacting the aft cover during deployment.... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5398613 | System for the tilting of a suspended object with tensioning roller for suspension line In a system for the tilting of a suspended object, this object is suspended from a suspension point by three suspension lines, the suspension lines being each fixed to the object by a fastening point. A suspension point is deflected and tautened by a roll... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5386781 | Parachute deployment system A parachute deployment system for use with an illuminating flare warhead propelled by a rocket motor. The system employs a compact two-stage parachute system which includes a main parachute arranged within a main parachute cover and a drogue parachute arr... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5339742 | Target detection and fire control system for parachute-suspended weapon A system for controlling the arming and firing of a weapon that is suspended from a parachute at an oblique angle and spun so as to be aimed over a spiral rotational scanning pattern on the earth as the parachute descends toward the earth. The weapon is s... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5239927 | Deceleration device for submunition A deceleration device for a submunition unit includes a cartridge releasably attached to the submunition unit. A releasable package including at least one pocket is disposed in the cartridge and is connected to the cartridge by a packaging line. An auxili... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5188315 | Submunition unit including a rotary parachute A submunition unit provided with a rotary parachute (3) as the sole parachute. The parachute, after release, initially is unable to be fully deployed due to reef loops (16) provided on the rigging lines (15) and held by a releasable holding device arrange... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5186418 | Self guided recoverable airborne instrument module The recoverable airborne instrument module is implemented using an aerodynamic housing which has at least one moveable control surface thereon. In operation, the recoverable instrument module is carried aloft by balloon to enable its instrument package pa... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5169093 | Method and device for faster automatic deployment of a parachute A parachute associated with an object unfolds faster in an airstream if the object is first accelerated in the direction of descent. This principle can be applied advantageously to a mine system combating military targets from the air because the time bet... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5155294 | Subwarhead A submunition which is arranged to be separated from a missile or projectile for example, a shell canister or the like, over a target area including an active part, in the form of a warhead, a target detector and means for imparting to the submunition a c... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5111748 | Submunition deployable through an artillery projectile Submunition which is deployable through the intermediary of an artillery projectile, and in which the submunition includes a releasing device for a braking parachute which is stowed in the tail end region of the submunition. The releasing device is activa... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5109774 | Penetrative projectiles Disclosed is a new type of penetrating projectile, the penetrating capacity of which is improved and more efficiently controlled, notably through a solution to the problems of obliquity. A projectile of this type has a front element forming the active par... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5054398 | Process and apparatus for dispersing submunition bodies A parachute pack sack with a submunition body affixed directly to grappling ropes of a parachute is expelled from a rapidly flying container which is mounted under a flight aggregate or flies independently. A pyrotechnic cutting device is actuated by a gr... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5016533 | Bomblet projectile including a stabilization band A bomblet projectile includes a projectile body, a fuse housing on the body at the rear end thereof; and an unwindable stabilization band for stabilizing the position of the projectile while dropping. The band forms, in the deployed state, a loop having l... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5016534 | Missile for setting down a load In a missile for setting down a load ejected from the missile after its launch, with at least one parachute that is attached to the load being packed in a container mounted in the missile, and with the cords of the load-carrying parachute being attached t... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5016839 | Device for the locking and unlocking of two elements of a projectile, notably of a parachute container The disclosed device comprises, in the first element, on which the second element is mounted, a peripheral housing opened outwards, a circlip engaged in said housing, comprising teeth capable of getting engaged in retaining means of the second element, an... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5003882 | Device for tilting a sub-munition under a parachute into inclined position For suspending a sub-munition from a plate carried beneath a parachute, an arm is hinged with the plate and the body of the munition, and a structure has two positions for which the sub-munition is respectively vertical or inclined. The structure also inc... | 04/02/1991 |
| 5001983 | Submunition An article of submunition which is harnessed as a rotating load through the intermediary of a connecting device to the shroud lines of a parachute. The connecting device is designed as a torque or rotational moment-transmitting spreader arrangement for th... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4953813 | Ejectable member with parachute An ejectable or launchable member which possesses a storage space for a parachute. An ejectable member of the type which is under consideration herein has the dimensions of the constructional elements reduced in the periphery of a parachute cassette, so a... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4922824 | Stand device for a mine A stand device or emplacement for a mine, especially for an air-deployable mine which is equipped with a search head, and which includes supporting legs articulated to the housing of the mine. The stand device for the mine has the supporting legs articula... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4889053 | Projectile equipped with braking parachute The invention relates to a projectile including a cylindrical receiving chamber (4) delimited by an interior wall (3) for a braking parachute (17) which can be ejected by way of a piston (9) that is longitudinally displaceable in the projectile, with the ... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4889030 | Projectile equipped with deployable parachute A projectile has at two parts (3, 4) axially arranged one behind the other and mutually linked, of which at least one contains a deployable parachute (6, 6'). In order to achieve a design that ensures a smooth and reliable separation of the parts (3, 4), ... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4878433 | Device for neutralizing military objects A device for neutralizing military objects by means of sub-munitions released by a mother rocket onto mobile targets on the ground. Each sub-munition (1) is provided with a military charge (2) and a wide range sensor (3) and descends while suspended from ... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4876963 | High penetration anti-runway bomb The invention relates to bombs intended to be released at a very low altitude so as to damage high mechanical resistance surfaces and more particularly antirunway bombs equipped with a downward or acceleration propulsive unit. Each bomb comprises means fo... | 10/31/1989 |
