Rheinmetall Gmbh

Bernd Schunk

Jorg Peters

Gerhard Hubricht

Reinfried Stolllewerk

Reinfried Stollewerk

An anti-tank missile system includes a weapons carrier system with a missile including control means for controlling the missile flight path and a searchhead camera for developing target data during flight of the missile. An elevatable platform is mounted on the weapons carrier system and a sighting device camera is disposed on the elevatable platform for sighting a target. Target data is compiled before a launch of the missile with the aid of the sighting device camera. A fire guidance computer in the weapons carrier system calculates a flight course for the missile. A light waveguide is connected between the missile and the weapons carrier system for transmitting target data developed by the searchhead camera for use by the fire guidance computer and for transmitting guidance signals generated by the fire guidance computer for controlling the control means for guiding the missile during its flight; and wherein the sighting device camera is a high resolution camera and the searchhead camera has at least one of a lower resolution and different spectral range than the sighting device camera.

Anti-tank missile system

A signal transmitting steering cable (4, 40, 40') for remotely-controlled flying bodies (1) which, once the flying body (1) has been launched, can be located and disposed of easily. For this purpose the surface layer (44, 46) of the steering cable (4) includes a material which is fluorescent when illuminated with light of a predetermined wavelength range. Preferably, a dye whose emission spectrum lies approximately between 530 and 690 nm is employed as the fluorescent material.

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Dusseldorf, Germany

Bernd Schunk