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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2023
Government of the United States, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (US);
Jacob Echevarria, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Michael Anderson, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Katherine Fitzpatrick, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Evan Pomfret, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Abigail Price, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Sarah Galyon Dorman, Monument, CO (US);
United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for deploying a payload to a hostile target. The payload may be separable from the apparatus or may be internal to the apparatus. The apparatus has two outboard drive wheels flanking a hollow body. A payload delivery mechanism is disposed on a frame inside and concealed by the hollow body. The payload delivery mechanism has a first, retracted position inside the hollow body and extends through a port to a second position to deliver a payload to a hostile target. The payload may be separable from the apparatus or may be internal to the apparatus. If the payload is internal to the apparatus, upon attachment to a hostile target the payload delivery mechanism may retract to be less visually conspicuous.