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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2002
Andrew C. Coon, Columbia, MD (US);
Howard Allen Lazoff, Germantown, MD (US);
Richard Phillip Taschler, Alexandria, VA (US);
BBNT Solutions LLC, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Shells fired from the gun of a ship create an underwater explosion that is used to drive a sonar system. Sonobuoys [ ] and/or a ship-towed array measure acoustic signals caused by the underwater explosion. A ship processing component [ ] analyzes the signals and locates reflections of objects [ ] in the signals. In addition to controlling the location at which to fire a shell, an adjustable fuze on the shell may be set to thereby control the depth at which the shell explodes. The low-frequency impulsive nature of the explosion makes it particularly suited for detecting objects in a littoral environment.