Vehicle

USRE36298E · kind E · reissue

Assignee

• Lockheed Martin Corporation · US

Inventors

• Richard Scherrer · Tustin, US
• Denys D. Overholser · Carson City, US
• Kenneth Watson · North Shields, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 5, 1995
• Grant date: Sep 14, 1999
• Expiry date: Oct 5, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A vehicle in free space or air, with external surfaces primarily fashioned from planar facets. The planar facets or panels are angularly positioned to reduce scattered energy in the direction of the receiver. In particular, radar signals which strike the vehicle are primarily reflected at an angle away from the search radar or are returned to the receiver with large variations of amplitude over small vehicle attitude changes.