Method for offering a composite dummy target formed from a plurality of active masses which emit spectrally differentiated radiation

US5397236A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Buck Werke GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Martin Fegg · Bischofswiesen, DE
• Heinz Bannasch · Langenau, DE
• Martin Wegscheider · Ulm, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 12, 1993
• Grant date: Mar 14, 1995
• Expiry date: Nov 12, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F41H9/06
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a method for offering a dummy target which simulates the target signature of a subject, such as land craft, aircraft or water craft, to an imaging, radiation-sensitive homing head such as an infrared homing head, a number of active masses are deployed at respective spatial positions, with each mass simulating a portion of the target signature of the subject by emitting spectrally differentiated radiation in the sensitivity range of the homing head. The active masses are deployed at positions to produce a three-dimensional dummy target in which sources of radiation to which the homing head is sensitive are positioned in a manner which mimics the subject.