Foster-miller, Inc.

Qinetiq North America, Inc.

Scott Paul Quigley

John M Hawes

Michael A Royo

Steven Yook

James G Donovan

Glenn Kornett

Michael D Farinella

William R Lawson

Robert Curran

Bjorn Rydin

Robert Lee Cardenas

Jamie Milliken

John D Larouco

Mads Schmidt

Joseph Vincent Malone

Christopher Michael Rose

John James Bannon

William Lawson

Frederick Carl Rickert Ii

Chad A Martin

John Michael Reed

Mark Radiwon

Steven Anthony Caito

Michael Vincent Salvucci

Michael Ian Andrewartha

An improved hard point net wherein a fabric net has hexagonal net line cells with six nodes. Hard points are attached to the net lines, three per hexagonal cell at every other node thereof such that in each cell there is a node without a hard point between two nodes with hard points and interior cells sharing hard points with all the cells surrounding it. A frame for the net spaces the net and the hard points from a target such as a vehicle.

Hard point net

A shield system for an ordnance includes a frame and a flexible net subsystem supported by the frame. Diagonal lines of net material intersect at nodes forming diamond shaped mesh openings and a hard point is attached to at least select nodes.

Load sharing hard point net

A protection system includes a net made of flexible, low breaking strength intersecting lines connected at nodes. A frame supports the net and spaces the net from a vehicle and/or structure. Hard points are disposed at least at select net nodes and feature a multi-sided body with a cavity therein behind a front face thereof. The body includes a lip extending into the cavity. A protrusion extends outwardly from the front face. A tapered plug is received in the cavity and includes a ledge engaged by the lip locking the plug and a net node in the cavity and securing the hard point to the net node in a pivotable fashion.

Vehicle and structure shield with improved hard points

A method of designing an RPG. A computerized model is created of a shield mesh opening with lines of a net intersecting at nodes and with hard points positioned at least at select nodes. The effectiveness of the mesh opening at a plurality of obliquity angles is determined. In the model, a change is made to the size of the mesh opening and the effectiveness is determined again at a plurality of different obliquity angles. Iterations of this process allow an optimal mesh opening size to be determined for a threat such as an RPG.

Method of designing an RPG shield

A surrogate RPG includes a warhead with an outer conductive portion and an inner conductive portion spaced from the outer conductive portion. A sabot includes an electrical circuit configured to monitor conductivity between the inner and outer conductive portions. The surrogate RPG can be used to test the effectiveness of various RPG defeat technologies.

Surrogate RPG

A watercraft arresting system and method including an entanglement subsystem including at least two arms in a V-configuration. A deployment subsystem deploys the entanglement subsystem so the arms are spread apart in the water in the path of the watercraft to arrest it.

Watercraft arresting system

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Franklin, MA, United States of America

Scott Paul Quigley