Weapons system for the ballistic and guided attack on multiple targets, especially by an aircraft

US4307650A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Kuesters · Ottobrunn, DE
• Werner Lehmann · Leinfelden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 18, 1979
• Grant date: Dec 29, 1981
• Expiry date: Jun 18, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F41F3/06
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The present weapons system enables an aircraft to attack simultaneously a urality of targets in an aimed, guided manner by a like plurality of small missiles or projectiles. For this purpose the missiles are carried in a rotatable drum type platform comprising respective launching tubes. The firing control system of the aircraft includes a computer which takes into account automatically the target coordinates and other data for selecting that missile which is most suitable for a particular target, whereby the rotatable platform requires a minimum of rotation for aiming the missile with a proper lead factor at the respective target. The missile is then automatically fired without any need of the aircraft heading toward the target.