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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2005
Michael E. Deflumere, Winchester, MA (US);
Richard J. Venuti, Greenville, NH (US);
Fernando M. Faria, Westford, MA (US);
Michael E. Deflumere, Winchester, MA (US);
Richard J. Venuti, Greenville, NH (US);
Fernando M. Faria, Westford, MA (US);
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for increasing the effectiveness of destroying selected objects in a target cloud by prioritizing the objects detected in a large aperture IR detector aboard a carrier vehicle and sequentially illuminating the detected targets with coded laser radiation, followed by the launching of multiple miniature kill vehicles from the carrier vehicle, with each kill vehicle assigned to a differently-coded object in the target cloud due to the reflection back of the coded returns, thus to permit directing of individual miniature kill vehicles to a specific object in the target cloud prior to a handoff to an IR heat seeker in the miniature kill vehicle, actuated to guide the kill vehicle for a final kill.