Intercept vehicle for airborne nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction

• US 6,626,077 B1
• Filed: 10/16/2002
• Issued: 09/30/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mark David Gilbert
• Original Assignee: Mark David Gilbert
• Inventors: Gilbert, Mark David
• Primary Examiner(s): Eldred, J. Woodrow
• Application Number:
  US10/271,649
• Time in Patent Office: 349 Days
• Field of Search: 89/11.1, 89/11, 89/13.4, 102/400, 102/405, 102/504
• US Class Current: 89/1.11
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 13/0006 Ballistically deployed systems for restraining persons or animals, e.g. ballistically deployed nets
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/66 Chain-shot, i.e. the submissiles being interconnected by chains or the like ballistically deployed systems for restraining persons or animals F41H13/0006

Abstract

An intercept device for flying objects made of a light-weight, packable structure made of a pliable, tear resistant material that can be expanded to a large web-like structure by means of a deployment device, into the path of a flying weapon. To capture, hold and reduce the velocity of intercepted flying objects, activatable resistance bodies are incorporated into uniformly distributed masses that are connected to the perimeter of the web like structure. Contractable sections of the web, made of cable-like structures, connected to perimeter masses, act as drawstrings upon collision with flying object. This causes closure of the web around the flying object as a result of the mass'"'"'s inertia and added resistance from deployable resistance structures that place tension on drawstring structures of the web. The flying object is subsequently captured within the web, held secure and it'"'"'s velocity rapidly reduced.

Claims

1. An intercept vehicle comprising:

(a) a flexible, packable, deployable web-like structure with means of post deployment contraction by means of drawstring action,

(b) a plurality of masses connected to the perimeter of said web-like structure,

(b) a means of controllably coupling momentum of said masses to contract said deployed web-like structure around a destructive flying object upon collision of a destructive flying object against said web-like structure,

(d) said masses contain activatable means of slowing said contractable web-like structure and said destructive flying object,

Whereby the tension produced by the inertia of said masses contracting said web around said destructive flying object upon collision, combined with the tension produced by the activatable means of slowing said web and entangled weapon, create forceful web contraction to capture, forcefully hold and drastically slow the velocity of said destructive flying object.