Messerschmitt-bolkow-blohm Gmbh

Dieter Weidenhagen

Werner Schnaebele

Hubert Vockensperger

Klaus Zimmerman

Dieter Kampa

A guided bomb for use in low level flying for pinpoint target combat, comprises a bomb having a braking device associated therewith to produce a slow-down which is effective against the trajectory and a picture-taking sensor connected to the bomb to guide the bomb for final phase guidance. The braking device advantageously comprises retrorockets or a parachute. The picture-taking sensor is advantageously a television camera or an infrared camera and a tracker is associated with it which may be mounted, for example, on the aircraft carrying the bomb. The picture taken by the picture-taking sensor is transmitted via either a radio or mechanical connection to the aircraft and is reproduced there for guidance by the pilot. The target may advantageously be illuminated by a laser illuminator carried on the aircraft and the bomb advantageously has a tracker with laser vectoring.

Guided bomb for use in low level flying

A plurality of individual containers holding ammunition bodies are arranged within a dispersion warhead. A reaction engine is provided for each container or each of a group of containers. The reaction engines are mounted on the exterior surfaces of the containers, preferably on the container bottom. A rocket engine fueled with a body of solid fuel can be used as the reaction engine. Ignition means are provided at each end of the body of fuel. A centrally positioned detonating channel extends between the ends of the body of solid fuel. A slot-shaped continuous gas channel extends through the body of solid fuel between its ends and also extends laterally outwardly from the detonating channel to the surface of the body.

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Neubiberg, Germany

Dieter Weidenhagen