Abstract:
The invention relates to a device for self-defense of aircraft against missiles and provides for a combination of a proximity sensor for the enemy missile, an intercepting rocket, and an aimed light beam, with the light beam optionally being used alone as an optical jammer against an optical homing head on the missile, or being used together with the intercepting rocket to steer it optically by either a semi-active or a beam rider steering method.
Abstract:
An initiating sensor for a missile equipped with a directional warhead. For the timely detection of the target and to calculate the tripping time, two rings are provided on the circumference of the missile, each having a multitude of active laser rangefinders.
Abstract:
Two laser distance measuring functions are preformed on board of a ground-hugging cruise missile by at least one laser distance meter for taking downwardly directed altitude measurements and diagonally or slantedly forwardly directed distance measurements for producing corrected altitude signals for use in controlling the flight of the missile. Both types of measurements can be made by one laser distance meter that is tiltable in the required direction or two laser units are provided. The correction provides a clear recognition of artificial fog by evaluating both types of measured values in an intelligent signal processing unit which compares the intensities of the measured values from the same ground locations, determines the extinction coefficient of the fog and takes the angular distribution of the back-scattering intensity of the laser beams into consideration for correcting the altimeter readings.
Abstract:
The resonator of a gas dynamic laser, particularly, of a high power gas dynamic laser, is mechanically decoupled from the other components of the laser by a pair of elastic restoring ring membranes and stay bolts. The flow channel of the laser is mechanically connected through the ring membranes to the resonator. A pair of tubular, elastic sleeve membranes seal the flow channel in a vacuum tight manner. The laser beam decoupling elements are secured to bushings extending coaxially through said elastic tubular sleeve membranes. The restoring forces of the ring membranes are large relative to the differential force resulting from said tubular sleeve sealing membranes.
Abstract:
A laser beam source and an operating method thereof is provided for a directional infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) weapon system for defensively countering guided missiles having infrared seeking heads, by directing an infrared laser beam at the guided missile so as to disorient, saturate, or irreversibly destroy the IR detectors and circuitry arranged in the target seeking head. The power, pulse frequency and spectral composition of the laser beam is adjustable and selectable as required to adapt to any particular defensive engagement. To achieve this, the laser beam source comprises an Nd:YAG pumping laser and an optical parametric oscillator including an oscillator crystal arranged in a resonator cavity. The crystal includes a plurality of different periodically polarized crystal zones having different lattice constants. The adjacent zones can be grouped together into selectable crystal zone groups. The beam cross-section of the pumping laser beam corresponds to the cross-section of a single crystal zone or of a crystal zone group encompassing plural zones. The crystal is arranged on a slide table that is slidably displaceable by a servomotor, to move a selected crystal zone or group into the path of the pumping laser beam. Thereby the wavelength components and the relative intensities thereof of the output laser beam can easily be selectively adjusted.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to an optical proximity fuse for missiles with laser transmitters and optical receivers, whose optically bundled beam paths are oriented in such a way at a small angle to the direction of flight that they intersect in predetermined measuring segments, wherein the radiation reflected from objects in these measuring segments is utilized for deriving the firing pulse, wherein at least two laser transmitters oriented at angles different from each other and a common optical receiver are arranged at different points of the front side of the missile. The measuring segments where the transmitter beam paths intersect the receiver beam path lie at different distances from the missile and at differing side spacings from the longitudinal axis of the missile, wherein the measuring segment lying closer to the missile corresponds to the predetermined target segment. The laser transmitters are modulated at identification response codes differing from each other. Means for discriminating between these identification response codes are provided in the receiver circuit. A firing signal is generated only if both the transmitter response codes are present at the receiver within a predetermined time interval and at receiver intensities lying within predetermined ranges. The instant of the firing signal is derived in a predetermined manner from the chronological sequence and the chronological spacing of the two signal response codes received.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a sensor for use in the warhead of a missile, which can be used against helicopters, in that it is equipped with one or more high-resolution LRFs with respect to space and time, which identifies the helicopter on the basis of the common arrangement and size of the detected rotor blade selections with a numerical processor and activates an ignition device accordingly.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an installation tool for the mounting of a carpet strip to serve as wall trim on an insertion-molding track. A short length of the carpet strip is first inserted by hand. The insertion toll is then placed on top of it. The insertion procedure is thereupon continued by simply sliding the installation tool.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a molding track for the installation of carpet molding trim. It possesses an asymmetrical two-lipped profile, one lip of which is fastened to the wall. The molding trim is fastened flush with the floor to the other lip, led upward around this lip, which is elastically prestressed in the direction of the wall, and clamped firmly. Electrical wiring can be installed subsequently in the hollow spaces provided for this purose. The profile can be manufactured of recycled material.
Abstract:
A laser such as a wave-guide laser with its housing is encased in a second housing which is also filled with laser gas. The second housing is sealed in a gas tight manner and includes a cylindrical portion, which may be made of metal, and a cap made at least partially of glass or ceramic. The cap is provided with a neck around the laser beam passage. The neck has a rated or predetermined break strength to make sure that a portion of the cap will break off at the neck when the laser is operated. The cap is provided with a device for monitoring or checking the operation status of the laser. The checking device includes a bellows, the interior of which is connected to sense the pressure inside the second housing. Further indicators showing whether the laser is operating are also provided in the cap which breaks off automatically with the aid of the bellows when the latter expands in response to a perforation of the cap by the initial laser operation. This type of structure increases the shelf life of the laser very substantially as compared to conventional lasers of this type because the second housing prevents the helium diffusion which takes place in conventional lasers.