Missile in flight indicator

• US 3,182,930 A
• Filed: 10/10/1956
• Issued: 05/11/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/1956
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Henry B. Riblet, John W. Hamblen, Joseph P. Randolph Jr
• Original Assignee: Henry B. Riblet, John W. Hamblen, Joseph P. Randolph Jr
• Inventors: Randolph, Joseph P. Jr., Riblet, Henry B., Hamblen, John W.
• Application Number:
  US03/615,209
• Time in Patent Office: 3,135 Days
• US Class Current: 244/3.13
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 7/30 Command link guidance systems homing F41G7/2206
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 15/01 Arrangements thereon for guidance or control steering arrangements F42B10/60; aircraft flight control B64C; guidance systems other than those installed aboard F41G7/00, F41G9/00; locating by use of radio or other waves G01S; flight control in general G05D1/00; computer aspects G06]

Claims

8. A MISSILE IN FLIGHT INDICATOR INCLUDING, IN COMBINATION WITH A RADAR TRANSMITTING A BEAM INCLUDING CODED PULSE GROUPS, A MISSILE IN THE BEAM AND HAVING MEANS FOR RECEIVING AND RETRANSMITTING THE CODED PULSE GROUPS, MEANS REMOTE FROM THE MISSILE FOR RECEIVING AND DECODING THE RETRANSMITTED PULSE GROUPS, AND MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID LAST-MENTIONED MEANS AND SYNCHRONIZED WITH THE RADAR FOR PROVIDING A VISUAL INDICATION OF THE RANGE OF THE MISSILE IN THE BEAM AND THE DISTANCE FROM THE MISSILE TO A TARGET IN THE BEAM.