Missile

About: Missile is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 12829 publications have been published within this topic receiving 94307 citations. The topic is also known as: guided missile & missiles.

Air defense destruction missile weapon system

Abstract: 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 links, propulsion means, and a plurality of control surfaces The missiles are launched from a carrier aircraft towards the target sites from a stand-off range The missiles preferably operate in cooperative teams of hunter and killer missiles, and are interoperable with a plurality of military aircraft and other existing weapon systems

Vascular injuries. An experimental study of high and low velocity missile wounds.

Abstract: In order to design procedures for adequate repair of vascular injury, we have conducted a study of arterial trauma caused by high velocity missiles. This report is concerned with the mechanism of arterial injury in ballistic wounds. The femoral arteries of anesthetized dogs were injured with missiles accurately calibrated at velocities of 1,000, 2,000, and 3,000 feet per second. The technique included angiograms of vessels at the moment of impact. High speed photographs demonstrated the sequential course of mechanical disruption with low and high velocity missiles. We have shown that the high velocity missile neatly shears the blood vessel wall at moment of impact. However, additional damage to the arterial wall, both gross and microscopic, is caused within 5μ to 10μ sec by the formation of the temporary cavity.

Missile deployment apparatus

Abstract: Apparatus for deploying one or more submissiles (15) from a carrier missile (25) whereby each submissile (15) is deployed into a flight path which is initially parallel to a streamline (20) of the fluid flow contiguous to the carrier missile (25). An ejection mechanism (45) has a submissile support member (105) oriented substantially parallel to the streamline (20) at the point where the submissile (15) is separated from the support member (105). The ejection mechanism (45) also provides a minimum side force to the submissile (15) which is proportional to a speed of the carrier vehicle (25). Provisions are also made to reduce or minimize any change in the aerodynamic characteristics of the carrier missile (25) after a submissile (15) has been deployed.

Apparatus for defence against an attacking missile

Abstract: 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 endangered by partisans who operate out of cover with modern portable guided missiles (12), against whose homing heads (13) the flares which were previously discharged from aircraft (11) no longer afford an effective defence. Therefore those and other potentially endangered craft (11) are provided with easily interchangeably and autarchically equipped containers (17) from which the defence beam (16) of a laser source (21) in accordance with pre-guidance by a warning sensor (10), are directed by way of the tracking optical system (19) of a target tracking system (20) on to the approaching guided missile (12) whose homing head (13) is already locked on to heat sources such as for example the engines of the craft (11) to be protected. For quickly and reliably detecting the guided missile (12) which is initially only in the form of a point, against the clutter background, the tracking camera is so-to-speak scanned stroboscopically on to the pulsating reflections of the defence beam (16) at the missile (12). The energy which is emitted towards the attacking missile (12) disturbs the optronic detector function in the homing head (13) by the clock of a pulsed beam (16). Superimposed thereon, in the event of a closer approach, is overloading of the IR-detector by the beam frequency which is in the working band of the homing head (13) and finally thermal destruction of the homing head (13) if the attacking missile (12) has not already previously deflected out of its path of attack due to the failure of its target tracking regulating loop. A continuous-wave illumination beam (40) of lower power and which is spectrally adjacent and which tracks on to a glint somewhat away from the defence beam (16) also serves with its reflection energy for actuation of the topography of an adaptive optical system (42) for compensating for atmospheric propagation disturbances.