Exploding missile

US4691636A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rheinmetall GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfram Witt · Goldkronach, DE
• Hendrik Lips · Goldkronach, DE
• Herbert Scholles · Meerbusch, DE
• Raimund Schweiger · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 17, 1986
• Grant date: Sep 8, 1987
• Expiry date: Jul 17, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F42C13/006
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An exploding missile has a casing and a parachute attached to the casing for making it move in a predetermined direction relative to the casing after launch. A charge in the casing has a projectile-forming front face, facing forward in the travel direction. An antenna is provided on the casing behind the front face and charge and is displaceable between a retracted position wholly behind the charge and an extended position projecting laterally therefrom and directed at least generally forwardly in the direction past the charge. An actuator is connected between the casing and the antenna for moving same from the retracted into the extended position after launch of the missile. A controller including a receiver connected to the antenna and a detonator in the charge detects the distance to a target in front of the missile and explodes the charge when a predetermined distance is detected or the target is otherwise sensed. The antenna is deployed after launch in a position capable of scanning forward of the obstacle to the secondary projectile, when that goes off.