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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1990
Roy W Kline, Newton, NJ (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An anti-aircraft mine which ejects fragment(s) upwardly from an upright ption in a selected ground area. The mine includes a warhead subassembly having walls forming a chamber for an explosive and having a frontplate which forms and ejects fragments upon an explosion, and includes a stabilization subassembly using a fin for controlling the trajectory of descent and its position of landing, after its ejection from an artillery projectile, and includes a target sensing subassembly having an antenna and signal processor and computer for tracking a low flying object, such as a plane, helicopter, drone, or missile, and for upwardly ejecting its fragments when the object enters a lethal zone of the mine.