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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2009
Alfred E. Pevler, San Antonio, TX (US);
Donald R. Van Rheeden, San Antonio, TX (US);
Le Moey Wiebush, Jr., Helotes, TX (US);
Alfred E. Pevler, San Antonio, TX (US);
Donald R. Van Rheeden, San Antonio, TX (US);
Le Moey Wiebush, Jr., Helotes, TX (US);
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and system for detecting and locating RF weapons being used against aircraft. Large geographic regions may be defended by equipping a constellation of high-altitude airborne platforms with RF detectors, GPS receivers and a communications unit. The communications unit downlinks data indicating an RF weapon pulse and associated time and location data. From this data, a ground station performs a time difference of arrival (TDOA) location fix of the RF weapon.