Seeker head for a target seeking missile

US4576346A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Bodenseewerk Gerätetechnik GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Roland Gauggel · Salem, DE
• Reiner Eckhardt · Überlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 9, 1984
• Grant date: Mar 18, 1986
• Expiry date: May 9, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S17/86
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a seeker head for a target seeking missile, which comprises a seeker 28 adapted to be directed to a target, two distance sensors 32 and 34 in the form of laser transceiver units are adapted to be directed to the target together with the seeker 28. The arrangement of the distance sensors 32 and 34 on opposite sides of the pitch axis 26 ensures that, with large squint angles, at most one of the distance sensors 32 and 34 is covered.