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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2017
U.s. Government As Represented BY the Secretary of the Army, Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, NJ (US);
David Chalfant Manley, Hackettstown, NJ (US);
Thomas Michael Presutti, Jr., Long Valley, NJ (US);
Jeremy McLain, Kenvil, NJ (US);
The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A retaining mechanism which may be launched to capture an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or the like. A projectile deploys dampener arms to stop projectile penetration into the target while forward retention arms deploy to prevent a backward removal from the target. The firmly embedded mechanism might feature tracking means or destruction means, or the target may be pulled away by the tether to be evaluated for information.