×

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE WITH DEPLOYABLE TRANSMIT/RECEIVE MODULE APPARATUS WITH RAMJET

  • US 20180329026A1
  • Filed: 07/30/2018
  • Published: 11/15/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A method for bistatic radar target detection comprising:

  • launching a UAV and navigating the UAV with a ramjet engine at supersonic cruise to beyond a radar range limit;

    maintaining a mothership aircraft on a flight profile outside the radar range limit;

    extending antenna arms to act as air brakes reducing speed and providing boresight orientation of Tx/Rx modules for bistatic RF pulse reception;

    employing a high power radar system on the mothership aircraft to emit radar pulses;

    employing receive (Rx) modules on the UAV as a bistatic receiver to receive reflected radar pulses from targets; and

    ,transmitting target data from the UAV via a communications data link to the mothership aircraft.

View all claims
  • 1 Assignment
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×