Messerschmitt-boelkow-blohm Gmbh

Messerschmitt-bolkow-blohm Gmbh

Daimler-benz Aerospace Ag

Messerschmitt-bogmbh

Ernst-August Seiffarth

Thorsteinn Halldorsson

Sigmund Manhart

Konrad Altmann

Thorstein Halldorsson

Wolfgang Von Hoessle

Reinhard Dirscherl

John Langerholc

Georg Voetterl

The invention provides an apparatus for the remote control of missiles or torpedoes launched from a launching container, by means of a cable of which a portion is wound onto a supply reel connected with the launching and of which the other portion is wound onto a supply reel in the missile or the torpedo. The supply reel in the launching container is arranged on the forward end of the container, and the supply reel in the missile or torpedo is arranged on the rearward end of the missile or torpedo. The cable section between the two supply reels, before the launching of the missile or torpedo, is fastened along the major portion of its length on the interior wall of the launching container, by means of a gluing arrangement which consists of a material whose combustion temperature is at least by 800.degree. C. lower than the melting temperature of the optical waveguide, or by means of a flexible clamping arrangement whose holding force can be adjusted.

Apparatus for the remote control of missiles or torpedoes

A recognition system for alarming and early warning against starting and approaching flying objects with an active engine evaluates the 'plume signature' of such an engine. Image signal generating electro-optical sensors, which operate in a preselected spectral range, are combined with an image processing and evaluating arrangement for producing output signals that can initiate countermeasures semi-automatically or automatically after a threat analysis has established that a threat exists.

Method and apparatus for recognizing the start and motion of objects

An optical wide angle sensor head for directionally sensing optical radiation is made of a plurality of individual sensor optical elements. Each sensor optical element is arranged at an input end of its own fiber optical conductor and has its own light entrance, its own field of view and its own individual optical axis. Neighboring fields of view may overlap each other. The fiber optical conductors lead to a transducer for converting the individual light signals into respective electrical signals. The individual sensor optical elements are arranged on a common mounting member in a housing so that the individual optical axes pass through a common intersection in front of said light entrances. The mounting member is a flat plate or a concave plate having a concave curvature facing in the viewing direction, whereby a spherical mounting is avoided.

Optical wide angle sensor head

A detector device for detecting and indicating the origin of laser radiation is disclosed. The detector has a plurality of discrete optics, with the discrete optics being arranged in azimuth planes. Each discrete optics monitors a preset solid angle with significant overlap between the angles. Each discrete optics has a first and second wave guide. The first wave guides are coupled to a first opto-electric transducer and the second wave guide is coupled to a second opto-electric transducer. The transducers are respectively coupled to a first and a second detector stage. All first wave guides leading to the first detector stage are of equal length while the second wave guides are of incrementally increasing length in the direction of increasing azimuth angle. The incrementally increasing length causes increasing travel time for light pulses over the wave guides. A transit time measuring device is coupled to the first and second detector stage and determines the beginning and end of the transit time measurement and, as a function of its, the solid angle of the incident laser radiation. Additionally, the opto-electric transducers of the first and second detector stages are coupled with a resonant circuit which acts as a filter stage. The resonant period of the resonant circuit is at least four times larger than the duration of the build-up time of the arriving laser pulse. The damped resonant circuits of the first and second detector stages are respectively coupled to passage-through-the-zero-axis detectors. The first time the incoming signal triggers one of the zero-axis detectors a starting signal is sent to the transit time measuring circuit and the next time one of the zero-axis detectors is triggered a stopping signal is sent to the measuring circuit.

Radiation position detection using time-indicative variable-length fiber

A method and system is used for detecting the presence of measuring the distance to and producing an image of, objects which, while being strongly absorbing or reflecting themselves, are hid from sight in a medium which is strongly dampening due to light dispersion, such as submersed submarines. The method provides, in addition to detecting the reflection from the surface of the object, a full acquisition of the variation of the backscatter of scanning laser pulses by the medium surrounding the object, with laser pulse transmitters operating with a much larger pulse duration, being usable for this purpose.

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Taufkirchen, Germany

Ernst-August Seiffarth