Diehl Gmbh & Co.

Martin Marietta Corporation

Peter Sundermeyer

Johann Schreier

Karl-Heinz Lachmann

Jurgen Leininger

Albrecht Reindler

A method for the warding-off of flying or airborne objects through the intermediary of guidable defensive airborne bodies. The defensive airborne bodies are launched from the surroundings about the target area which is to be protected; triggered by means of a stationary data transfer device, into a nominal trajectory which, at the latest at a previously specified ideal collision point along the approach trajectory of the target object which is to be intercepted at still a considerable distance, enters approximately tangentially into that particular trajectory. For this purpose, such nominal trajectory is provisionally determined by the ground station pursuant to the constructionally specified dynamics of flight of the defensive airborne body, and the measured or, respectively, extrapolated trajectory of the approaching flying object.

Method for the repulsing of airborne objects

Droppable or air-delivered ammunition, especially ammunition which is adapted to lie in-wait or in a lurking condition, and which includes a parachute and with a device for clearing away the parachute subsequent to being deposited on the ground.

Droppable ammunition

A guided artillery projectile with a flight attitude or trajectory regulator in the autopilot of the projectile for the guidance of a transition into a gliding trajectory at the assumption of a predetermined pitch angle after the passage through the apogee of the ballistic firing trajectory.

Guided artillery projectile with trajectory regulator

A method for the autonomous determination of an inertial positional reference on board a guided projectile through the ascertaining and evaluating of pressure values in the surroundings of the projectile during the movement thereof along a ballistic trajectory. Moreover, also disclosed is an arrangement for the autonomous determination of an inertial positional reference on board a guided projectile which is launched in a ballistic trajectory through measuring of the pressure in the surroundings about the projectile. In an aerodynamically stable condition of flight of the projectile, there is measured the dynamic atmospheric pressure of the surrounding medium onflowing relative to the projectile, and for the measured value of the atmospheric pressure as the characteristics curve parameter for the momentarily given elevator or stabilizer position of the momentarily absolute pitch position angle of the projectile, is read out from a field of characteristics curves, which as its content, provides from model observations or model investigations, the pitch position angle in dependence upon the projectile elevator position pursuant to the aerodynamic trim equations for the assumed condition of flight.

Method and arrangement for the autonomous determination of an inertial

A method of attacking aboveground armored objects, in particular those which are employed for sheltering aircraft; and moreover, to the utilization of steeply descending final flight phase-corrected submunition. The shelter is attacked in an orientation directed generally horizontally against its gate. Furthermore, in the utilization of steeply descending submunition of the type which is employed for implementing the foregoing method, this includes at least one projectile-forming covering oriented genrally transversely of the longitudinal axis thereof, and with a maneuvering sensor responsive to the center of a typical aircraft apron clutter signature in front of an aircraft shelter.

Method and utilization of final flight phase-corrected submunition for

A method for homing a projectile onto a target wherein the projectile is self-steering in an extended trajectory in its flying end phase, in particular an artillery projectile, from which there is effected a search and homing onto a target. Also provided is an arrangement for the change of a projectile which is self-steering and program-controlled during its flight end phase and which is equipped with a target searching device, in particular an artillery projectile, which is equipped with control and steering arrangements and with control rudders for transition from a ballistic firing trajectory into an extended forward trajectory and then for homing into a target approach trajectory. An arrangement is also included for the input of the characteristics of a ballistic launch trajectory into the memory of a navigational computer on board of a projectile which is self-steering along an extended flight end phase.

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Lauf, Germany

Peter Sundermeyer