Position gyroscope

Abstract

The present positional gyroscope is used for stabilizing and steering a fng body, especially a secondary flying body ejected from a primary or carrier flying body which is rotating or rolling about its longitudinal or roll axis. Such gyroscopes are supposed to sense and take over the rolling position information from the gyroscope of the carrier flying body. For this purpose it is necessary that the gyroscope of the secondary flying body avoids course deviations. Hence, the gyroscope is supported in a first locked frame (3, 8) which in turn is suspended in an auxiliary rolling frame (4). A drive mechanism or motor (2) is connected to the rolling frame (4). The driving motor (2) may be switched on for rotating the auxiliary rolling frame (4) prior to activating or ejecting the secondary flying body. The auxiliary rolling frame (4) will be made to rotate in a direction opposite to the rolling direction of the carrier flying body for providing a fixed reference for the steering or stabilizing of the secondary flying body. The same type of gyroscope may also be used in the carrier flying body, whereby the gyroscope is made independent of the rolling motion of the carrier flying body.