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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7339537 | Capacitive drive antenna and an air vehicle so equipped Disclosed are antenna embodiments and air vehicles so equipped that include a first antenna component, and a second antenna component, separated by a free space gap, where the antenna embodiments are adapted to capacitively couple the first antenna component and the... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338009 | Apparatus and method for cooperative multi target tracking and interception The invention described herein provides an apparatus and a method to cooperatively track and intercept a plurality of highly maneuvering asymmetric threats using networks of small, low-cost, lightweight, airborne vehicles that dynamically self-organize into an ad ho... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333044 | Rocket-powered sensor target assembly A rocket tube for housing a reloadable rocket motor is connected to a spacer element and a wire-rider element. A sensor target for reflecting radar signals is screwably attached to the rocket tube. The sensor target is provided with a plug for effectively sealing on... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325354 | Weapon aiming device A weapon aiming system may utilize a laser diode and a reflective coating on an optical element to generate a red dot aim point for a shooter with a bright view to the target with minimal color distortion. The optical element may utilize an off-axis parabolic lens t... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7207517 | Munition with integrity gated go/no-go decision A munition is presented which includes an integrity verification system that measures the integrity of the munition. When an integrity threshold is not met, engagement of the munition with a predetermined target is aborted. Also presented is a methodology for gating... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7190304 | System for interception and defeat of rocket propelled grenades and method of use A method for intercepting and a defeating rocket propelled grenade (RPG) which includes the steps of detecting a thermal signature from a launch of the RPG; and cueing a narrow beam radar which locates the RPG and develops a ballistic solution and target intercept p... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7149611 | Virtual sensor mast A virtual sensor mast for a ground vehicle and a method for operating a ground vehicle using a virtual sensor mast are disclosed. The virtual sensor mast includes an unmanned airborne vehicle capable of lifting itself from the ground vehicle upon deployment therefro... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7104496 | Active protection device and associated apparatus, system, and method An interceptor device for protecting a platform against an incoming threat is provided. The interceptor device comprises a housing and a countermeasure device. At least one detonating charge is capable of deploying the countermeasure device. A controller device hous... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7079602 | Receiving apparatus and method and provision medium An interference signal from an adjacent signal is prevented and a desired signal demodulated. A frequency conversion circuit 4 converts a received signal frequency to a first intermediate frequency signal of a first intermediate frequency higher than t... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072558 | Splice chamber for wire link to an underwater vehicle Described herein is a splice chamber for accommodating excess optical cable obtained when making a fusion splice connection between two reels of cable. The chamber comprises two portions which define a space for the optical cable. The chamber is constructed to divid... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7066427 | Active protection device and associated apparatus, system, and method An interceptor device adapted to protect a platform associated therewith against an incoming threat having a trajectory by intercepting the threat in an intercept zone is provided. Such an interceptor device comprises a housing defining an axis and a countermeasure ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7046934 | Optical communication system using a high altitude tethered balloon An optical communication system using a high altitude tethered balloon 10 that operates above most clouds and atmospheric turbulence. An optical communication system includes a balloon 10 with an optical communication payload 30, a fiber optic c... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7039367 | Communications using unmanned surface vehicles and unmanned micro-aerial vehicles A communications system and method utilizes an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) capable of collecting data about an environment in which the USV resides. At least one micro-aerial vehicle (MAV), equipped for unmanned flight after a launch thereof, is mounted on the US... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036767 | Projectile seeker The present invention relates to a projectile seeker which comprises: (a) A hollow in the projectile for accommodating a light sensor; (b) A light sensor located within said hollow for sensing light which is emitted or reflected from a target, and for producing an e... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032856 | Modern thermal sensor upgrade for existing missile system A method of mapping a first array to a second array is useful where (1) each of the arrays has pixels in sequential columns and rows and the first array has sequential integers identifying each row of pixels, (2) sequential integers identify each column of pixels, a... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7014141 | Unmanned airborne reconnaissance system An unmanned airborne reconnaissance system, the unmanned airborne reconnaissance system including a lightweight, portable, powered aircraft and a foldable launch rail, the aircraft, in a broken down condition and the launch rail in a broken down condition fitable in... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7008233 | Retractable panel interface cable device and method A device and method for mounting and wiring avionic equipment such as modules and display units in an aircraft is provided. The novel configuration utilizes a flexible guide that routes communication lines from a device such as a display unit to other devices such a... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003206 | Cladding-pumped optical fiber and methods for fabricating Disclosed is an optical fiber article for receiving pump radiation of a first wavelength for amplifying or generating radiation of a second wavelength. The optical fiber article includes a core for propagating light of the second wavelength. The core has a first ind... | 02/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6970681 | Integrated multimode radio and components thereof An integrated multimode radio includes a multimode receiver and a multimode transmitter. The multimode receiver includes a shared receiver front-end, a receiver multiplexor, and a plurality of receiver IF stages. The multimode transmitter includes a shared transmitt... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6950586 | Fiber for enhanced energy absorption Fibers, including fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers, and systems containing such fibers are disclosed. ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6941850 | Self-contained airborne smart weapon umbilical control cable An umbilical cable for delivering electrical signals between an aircraft and a smart weapon carried by the aircraft. The umbilical cable includes cabling comprising a plurality of conductive wires, a first connector provided on one end of the cabling and configured ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6931775 | Remote control module for a vehicle The invention is a remote control module for controlling the movement of a vehicle, the module for mounting on a rifle. The module includes a housing suitable for use as a forward handgrip for the rifle. A mechanism is included to mount the housing on the rifle in t... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6910658 | Underwater detection system An anti-torpedo torpedo having laser homing head, the torpedo being launched from a parent vessel or platform which itself houses the expensive to replace, the bulky, or the high power consuming parts of the laser, said parts being optically connected to an optical ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6899297 | Missile fire control system The need in the art is addressed by the improved missile fire control system of the present invention. In the illustrative embodiment, the inventive system is adapted for use with TOW missile systems and includes a telescope cluster assembly (10) for generati... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6845303 | Micro-satellite and satellite formation for inverse and distributed proximity operations A method and apparatus for conducting proximity operations is disclosed. The method called inverser proximity operations includes maneuvering an active vehicle into general proximity to a target vehicle, transmitting from the target vehicle to the active vehicle dat... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6804495 | Wireless communicator link from towed/surrogate decoy transmitter to the host aircraft The present invention relates to a towed/surrogate decoy transmitter connectable via the tow cable to a platform or host aircraft using a wireless communicator link, the link providing useful performance and status information of the decoy transmitter to the host ai... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6669126 | Payout device for data transmission lines and method for the production of payout device A storage device for data transmission lines, which serve for data transmission between a moving object and a base station, has a spool unit (2) on which a data transmission line (1) is wound in the form of a package of several layers (21) of windings. Th... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6651004 | Guidance system A method and apparatus for directing a pursuing vehicle, such as a torpedo, on an intercept trajectory from a launching vehicle to a target vehicle with evasion capabilities. The guidance system bases a solution on vectors on a first Cartesian coordinate ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6510776 | Immediate battle damage assessment of missile attack effectiveness A weapon system and method is provided to obtain damage assessment data immediately after impact of a missile. The missile releases the pod a short time before impact. The pod contains a parachute, a small camera and communications equipment. When release... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6502522 | Coil restraint device A coil restraint device for a torpedo mounted dispenser of a torpedo assembly is disclosed. The torpedo assembly includes at least a torpedo body, a longitudinal propulsion shaft housed within the torpedo body, and a torpedo mounted dispenser connected to... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6393989 | Drone or towed body having infrared flares for stimulating a flying target In a towed body with infrared flares located at its rear, the flares are in an ejection unit and are pulled out of the towed body via a tow cable as they ignite, preventing the towed body from being destroyed by missiles when it is used during target simu... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6186441 | Device and method for determining the impact point of a ballistic missile In an aiming or sighting device and an aiming method for determining the impact point of a ballistic flying body such as a rocket or a tube weapon projectile, specific characteristic values of the ballistic flying body are stored in a memory and an evalua... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6142410 | Device for guiding an aircraft, in particular a missile A device for guiding an aircraft includes an image sensor mounted on the aircraft, a data transmission unit for transmitting the images provided by the image sensor, a guide station for receiving the images which includes a touch-sensitive screen for disp... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6113027 | Flight launched fiber optic dual payout system A flight launched fiber optic dual payout system (10) for a command guided missile (12) is disclosed which combines a missile (12) with two fiber optic cable dispensers (18, 20) into a single unit that can mount to a single launch station of a launch plat... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5944281 | Dual band millimeter-infrared fiber optics guidance data link The dual band millimeter-infrared fiber optics guidance data link presents nhanced seekers with the capability to see through cloud cover while exhibiting resolution that is adequate to strike high value targets. Such a seeker may use a bi-directional dual... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5720448 | Shock absorbers This invention relates to a shock absorber for use with a command link controlled missile system. The shock absorber being designed to absorb the shocks produced by launch and missile movements and being particularly applicable to fibre optic command link... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5721680 | Missile test method for testing the operability of a missile from a launch site A missile is tested by first stimulating the performance of missile built-in tests that are stimulated in service by signals from the launch site, and which tests do not require internal access to the missile. If performance is satisfactory, no further te... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5678785 | Fiber-optic cable dispenser and remotely controlled vehicle using same Fiber-optic cable is wound on a cylindrical bobbin without adhesive and is situated in the vehicle so that the cable, attached to a relatively stationary control computer station, is pulled freely off of the bobbin as the vehicle, such as a missile or tor... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5637825 | Control line spool A control line deployment device useable in an underwater vehicle including stator positioned at an aft end of an underwater vehicle having a spool bucket formed therein with an entrance opening at an aft end of the stator in communication with the spool ... | 06/10/1997 |
