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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 16, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard Sutton Ransom, Holywood, GB;
Assignee:
Short Brothers PLC, , GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41G 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F41G 3/00 ;
Abstract
A missile system and a method of missile guidance in which a bus missile is launched from a launch station remote from a target with the bus missile carrying a plurality of sub-missiles. The sub-missiles are then launched from the bus missile during flight of the bus missile. The sub-missiles are arranged to deploy ahead of the bus missile and are guided to the target under the control of a guidance beam generated in and transmitted from the bus missile.