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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
William C Pittman, Huntsville, AL (US);
Walter E Miller, Jr, Huntsville, AL (US);
Michael R Christian, Huntsville, AL (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41G / ; F41G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
244-313 ; 244-314 ;
Abstract
Van Atta array is used to receive a millimeter wave beam from a beam transmitter located in a missile in flight and retransmit the beam back to its source along its original optical path after the beam is phase conjugated and modulated at a tracking station by imparting to it missile guidance information. The missile extracts guidance information from the retransmitted beam and guides its trajectory closer to the course leading to the target.