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Louis Maury

Electro-magnetic decoy-launcher ammunition has an external housing, which houses an impeller in its lower section and encloses a charge of electro-magnetic decoy material which can be ejected by a thrust device when the impeller is excited. The charge remains in its tubular transfer container, and the thrust device is mounted within the transfer container and comprises a semi-rigid disc actuated by a piston, fitted with a peripheral projection, which defines with the disc an annular housing for a split ring for taking up play and a felt washer ensuring that the device is fireproof.

Electro-magnetic decoy-launcher ammunition

A decoy-launching pack for mounting on a directional carriage for foiling or frustrating weapons guidance systems. The pack comprises a rigid base suitable for positioning in a predetermined manner on said carriage, a firing means incorporated with said base for operation in conjunction with a firing-control component integrated in said carriage when said base is located thereupon, and a support located above and secured to said base and having the rack-shaped upper surface defining predetermined angled slopes. A firing transmission pyrotechnical chain extends from said firing means to the level of said angled slopes of the upper surface of said support, and a plurality of mortars are arranged with an ejection charge at the bottom bearing upon said angled slopes of said upper surface of said support, said mortars being predirected in the same plane, according to predetermined angles related to those of said angled slopes of the support surface. At least one decoy carrying projectile is located within each mortar.

Decoy-launching packs for foiling guided weapon systems

An elementary emissive decoy for protecting, say, a ship from an infra-red guided missile has a water-tight case provided with floats and in which there is a liquid aerosol, a high calorific pyrotechnic composition core and an ignition device for the core. A plurality of decoys are launched from the ship one after another to create an artificial moving target.

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Toulouse, France

Louis Maury