MILITARY OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE MISSILE CONTROL SYSTEMS

摘要

A military offensive or defensive missile control system comprises drones or pilotted aircraft transmitting photographs of the battle zone to a receiving station (15, 16, 17, 20) where the photographs are suitably coded, identified and stored. A transfer mechanism (21) transfers a target image to each of a number of cruise missiles in launchers (22) mounted on a transporter (24). The missile when launched follows a set trajectory based on flight data recorded in its auto-pilot. The target image is suitably processed during flight to generate images of the target in various lanes and differing angles of approach. On nearing the target area, the photograph received by the missile's optical system is processed likewise by a master computer which also matches the two sets of images so as to lock the missile on to the target. The control system is housed underground beneath a reinforced concrete bunker roof (11). IMAGE