System for multistage, aerial dissemination and rapid dispersion of preselected substances
US4406227A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 9, 1981 |
| Grant date | Sep 27, 1983 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 9, 2001 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF42B12/70
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A system for multistage aerial dispersion of materials or substances in mte form to provide an aerial array of interspaced clouds or cloud-like patterns of such materials or substances. Although the materials or substances may be in the nature of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and the like, suitable for domestic applications, there is basically disclosed a system for military applications. In this latter regard, rapid multipositional aerial dispersion of decoy material, such as thin metallic strips, chaff, or the like, to deceive or confuse enemy radar is achieved by packaging the decoy material in a carrier missile structured to carry a plurality of separate frangible canisters or modules respectively containing the decoy material in the form of a myriad of such metallic strips or chaff. The carrier missile while airborne is adapted to explosively shatter the canisters or modules in predetermined, timed sequence and thereby widely scatter their contents of metallic strips, or chaff, as a multitude of discrete dipolar elements to form a series of separate interspaced clouds or cloud-like regions of decoy material with each possessing the electronic or radar tracking characteri…
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