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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1976
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1973
Thomas A Moore, Locust Grove, VA (US);
Earl Gehman, Fairfax, VA (US);
George Huddleston, Herndon, VA (US);
Vega Precision Laboratories, Inc., Vienna, VA (US);
Abstract
In a radar target acquisition system means are provided for analyzing the video return including an automatic gate circuit causing the range gate to sweep out, and to sequentially sample the video return; a filter acquisition video processing circuit including means for discriminating between random and sinusoidal amplitude modulation appearing on the video return and having known frequency characteristics equal to the scan and pulse repetition frequencies of the radar within the pass band of the filter circuit, and means for comparing the discriminated amplitude modulated video return signal to at least one established threshold; and a track circuit which remains de-activated during the sweeping mode and is activated upon command from the filter acquisition circuit. Means are provided for manually initiating the gate circuit and for inhibiting the track circuit to await response from the filter acquisition circuit.