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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5612503 | Laser weapon system Laser weapon system whose laser device is a target reconnaissance system with a visual device, rangefinding and exposure measuring devices, and a control computer for adjusting the laser energy, with the laser device being associated with a beam-aiming un... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5611502 | Interceptor seeker/discriminator using infrared/gamma sensor fusion The disclosed innovative, interceptor seeker discriminator system has the capability to home in on targets containing nuclear materials by detecting the gamma fissions. The gamma signatures can be obtained from activating the nuclear material by a Neutral... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5610359 | Method of generating non-toxic smoke A method of generating nontoxic smoke is taught. The method comprises: (a) submerging a nontoxic smoke creating device in a liquid coolant while preventing entry of coolant into said device; said device includes a composition which comprises: (1) a first ... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5603180 | Hand gun with remotely controlled safety system A safety system for a hand gun includes an electrode exposed through the handle. A high voltage source inside the handle connects to the electrode through a switch controlled by a receiver activated by a transmitter carried by an authorized person. If the... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5600434 | Apparatus for defending against an attacking missile Craft (11) generally and in particular the transport aircraft (11) which are used for humanitarian purposes and for supplying crisis reaction forces over militarily unknown territory and which have comparatively little manoeuverability are particularly en... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5583311 | Intercept device for flying objects An intercept device for flying objects is formed of a lightweight, small-volume, packable structure made of a tear-resistant, pliable material, which can be stretched to a large, two-dimensional or three-dimensional expansion by means of a deployment devi... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5577431 | Ejection and distribution of submunition In a method for the ejection and distribution of submunition bodies to be ejected from a submunition carrier for combatting targets in a line, such as vehicle columns, the submunition carrier (3) comprises vertical ejecting tubes (3a) for the submunition ... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5557347 | Ballistic missile boresight and inertial tracking system and method A coarse/fine alignment system and method for boresighting high energy, laser pulses onto ballistic missiles in their boost phase. A ground based, common optical aperture laser separator, a mosaic array sensor, and a controller are cooperative to align bu... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5537909 | All-aspect bomb damage assessment system A bomb damage assessment system that is carried by a weapon and released to provide imagery of a bombed area before and after bomb delivery. The system comprises a glider that is releasably secured to the weapon that includes tracking and guidance electro... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5537928 | Piggyback bomb damage assessment system An autonomous bomb damage assessment system that is piggybacked to a bomb to provide imagery of a bombed area immediately after bomb delivery. The bomb damage assessment system comprises a housing that is releasably secured to the bomb. An imaging system ... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5537947 | Expendable underwater vehicle An expendable underwater vehicle for use in training naval forces in anti-submarine warfare in ocean waters, including shallow waters, is between about three to five feet in length and about five inches in diameter, and it includes various improvements wh... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5524524 | Integrated spacing and orientation control system An integrated spacing and orientation control system is provided for carrying an array of objects and maintaining a predetermined orientation of the objects and a predetermined spacing between objects. In a presently preferred application, the spacing and... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5511482 | Environmentally degradable munitions A munition which remains uninitiated after deployment undergoes a process of self-neutralization. This process is accomplished through the use of environmentally degradable materials in the construction of the ordnance items. The degradable components com... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5511218 | Connectionist architecture for weapons assignment A system (20) for producing an assignment of a plurality of entities (12) to a plurality of objects (16). This assignment is optimized subject to fixed constraints. The system (20) represents the assignment as a connectionist processing architecture havin... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5503059 | Vehicle disabling device and method A vehicle disabling device is positioned under a vehicle desired to be stopped, sends a capacitive discharge therethrough, and disables at least one electric system of the vehicle.... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5497705 | Zone-defense weapon system and method for controlling same A zone-defense weapon system includes an attack device having at least one main launch tube having a projectile that encloses an explosive charge. At least one device for surveillance and acquisition of targets controls a surveillance zone by detecting an... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5495787 | Anti-missile missiles having means to "blind", and thus render ineffective, precision, seeker guided munitions An anti-missile missile for preventing an incoming threat missile from impacting a target without requiring impact of the anti-missile missile with the incoming threat missile. The incoming threat missile is provided with a guidance and control system dis... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5497156 | Towed target A towed target or decoy serves to avoid heat-seeking and radar missile attacks on a jet aircraft. The decoy has a body with a nose and a sidewall. A ring surrounds the body and the spaced from it. The interior of the ring and the exterior of the body have... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5493993 | Decoy A decoy capable of assuming the shape of a water craft comprises a maneuvble vessel, having a tubular body portion which defines an enclosed interior region. The vessel further has an opening formed in the body portion and a hatch door which covers the o... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5473501 | Long range electrical stun gun A wire-less dart adapted to be projected by a gun and capable of applying an electrical pulse of sufficient energy to stun a target. The dart includes a photovoltaic cell responsive to a coherent electromagnetic energy source, such as a laser, for convert... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5471213 | Multiple remoted weapon alerting and cueing system A weapon alerting and cueing system including a weapon terminal responsive to radar track information for radar detected aircraft; a first weapon launcher operated by a first weapon operator; a first weapon pointing sensor for providing azimuth and elevat... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5467681 | Cannon launched reconnaissance vehicle The invention offers a novel way to enhance the time of a surveillance paad over a target area. It provides a relatively inexpensive way to position an unmanned reconnaissance payload over a potential target area, using a cargo projectile launched from a... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5464174 | Air defence system and defence missile for such a system Air defense system capable of intercepting high-speed airborne missiles (3), including a fixed control installation (1) and defense missiles (2). According to the present invention: at the point (F) common to the approach trajectory (T) of the said airborne mi... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5458041 | Air defense destruction missile weapon system An air defense missile weapon system in which a plurality of unmanned missiles penetrate, survey, identify, attack and destroy target areas that include air defense sites and sites of military interest. Each of the missiles has an airframe, sensors, data ... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5457597 | Electrical shocking apparatus Electrical shocking apparatus includes an electrical conductive means having an outer face which can be selectively electrically energized. There is an elongated housing attached to the electrical conductive means. The elongated housing extends for at lea... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5453746 | Assembly including a jettisonable device with a travelling-wave tube A jettisonable means comprises means with a travelling-wave tube for emitting electromagnetic waves. It forms part of an assembly having external power supply means for supplying the filament of the travelling-wave tube. The external power supply means te... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5448936 | Destruction of underwater objects An apparatus for destroying a target underwater object includes a targeting system and a gun system. The targeting system has a laser which produces a laser beam, a laser ranging sensor sensitive to reflections of the laser beam from an underwater object,... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5435224 | Infrared decoy A floating torch burning polydimethylsiloxane to provide a decoy over the termediate infrared spectrum of a ship.... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5417139 | Delivery system and method for flexible array Apparatus and method are provided whereby a single rocket or other projectile can be used to deploy a flexible array such as a net. There is provided to the rocket, via a sleeve and an attached flexible nose cone cap, a pair of pivoted, telescoping arms. ... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5415246 | Gas projection apparatus for use in preventing the theft of an automobile A gas projection apparatus for disabling the engine of an automobile being ursued by, for example, a police cruiser. The gas projection apparatus comprises a housing having a charging chamber which receives carbon dioxide gas under pressure from an externa... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5406287 | Programmable airdrop infrared decoy A battery powered self-contained source of infrared or other optical spectrum emission is disclosed. The emission source is provided with airdrop and other dispersal arrangements and is disposed in the form of an enclosed spherical or other housing which ... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5400688 | Missile defense system A missile defense system generates a change in density in the air path of a missile. The density change is created by a high-pressure water system which can be generated by a water jet or a body of water explosively created from a water surface. When oper... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5381445 | Munitions cartridge transmitter A munitions cartridge transmitter capable of emitting an electromagnetic signal after discharge from a cartridge propelling device comprises a signal generator, an electromagnetic signal transmitter coupled to the generator, an antenna coupled to the tran... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5373773 | Anti-torpedo stern defense system A stern torpedo defense system uses a pair of passive sonar towed tactical etectors in tandem alignment to detect the presence and trajectory of a stern torpedo attack. The detectors are towed below the wake of a surface ship and include arcuate arrays of ... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5343794 | Infrared decoy method using polydimethylsiloxane fuel A floating torch burning polydimethylsiloxane to provide a decoy over the termediate infrared spectrum of a ship.... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5341718 | Launched torpedo decoy An acoustic decoy round ejected by a launcher for flight above water from a ea-going vessel, impacts at the water surface to cause separation of a payload from a forward section of the round that is also separated from a flotation anchor tethered to the pa... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5333814 | Towed aerodynamic bodies An airborne body (1) towed behind an aircraft (2) is manoeuvrable around the flight path of the aircraft in order to intercept or collide with an incoming threat and thus protect the aircraft either by directly damaging the threat or causing it to fuze pr... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5331897 | Ship decoy A decoy device for deployment in a marine environment to decoy heat seeking issiles from their intended target. The device consists of a canister of fuel and means for igniting the fuel. The canister is designed such that the operation of the device create... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5323682 | Method for protecting a space vehicle and resultant vehicle The present invention relates to a method for protecting a space vehicle inst directed energy, and to the resultant thermally protected space vehicle.... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5291818 | Process for defending objects emitting an infrared radiation, and droppable bodies to carry out the process A process is provided for defending objects emitting an infrared radiation, in particular ships, against missiles, which are equipped with intelligent infrared seeker heads. Following location of the missile, adjacent the object a large area pyrotechnical... | 03/08/1994 |
