US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Timothy L Brosseau

John A Condon

David H Lyon

Arthur Liberatore

A launcher system and method for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), wherein the launcher system comprises a barrel comprising a prepackaged internal pusher cup configured behind the UAV housed within the barrel; an expansion chamber operatively connected around the barrel, wherein the barrel extends out of a first end of the expansion chamber; a muzzle adapter operatively connected to a second end of the expansion chamber, wherein the first end of the expansion chamber is positioned opposite to the second end of the expansion chamber; a rifle slip-fitted to the muzzle adapter; and a stand operatively connected to the expansion chamber, wherein a triggering of the rifle causes the internal pusher cup to push the UAV out of the barrel at a predetermined launch velocity in order to attain a predetermined self-propelled flight trajectory.

Rifle launcher for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

A cartridge magazine including a spiral channel having a tangential linear xit section, a plurality of spider arms dividing the cartridges into groups of cartridges and having a plurality of indentures in their radial faces, and a drive means mounted external to the magazine for driving said arms. The spiral is a perfect Archimedian spiral and the indentures on an arm number one less than the number of cartridges in a group and are displaced radially by the diameter of a cartridge.

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Havre de Grace, MD, United States of America

Timothy L Brosseau