Anti-radiation end-of-flight homing device for missile navigation system e.g. air-to-surface missile

摘要

The antiradiation homing device guides the vehicle near to a source of radiation and an end-of-flight homing device with its own estimation of measurement quality (90) takes the vehicle to the objective. The goniometer has several antennae (30) along a side wall of the vehicle, freeing the front of vehicle for the end-of-flight homing device. The goniometer has a receiver (31) and the means to determine the direction (34) and the range (33) of the radiation sources from the direction and values held in a memory (35). An identification unit (32) identifies the source from its characteristics and a library of characteristics and a clock (36) provides to the memory the date of information so as to update information to the trajectory processor.