摘要:
A fire control system (10) for a gun (12) pivotally mounted in elevation and in azimuth employs optical sighting of a target (16) manually via a telescope (26) fixedly directed substantially parallel to an axis of the gun (12). A laser range finder (24) directs its laser beam in a direction parallel to the telescope (26) to obtain target range. The system includes a control unit (42) which employs elevation, azimuth and range data to predict target track. The control unit (42) includes electric circuitry for offsetting the gun to provide for an intercept of the target by a projectile fired from the gun, and delay circuitry which delays a firing of the gun until the gun has been offset. Gun orientation is directed manually during tracking of the target, and passes to automatic control in response to a firing command.
摘要:
A firing weapon is associated with a laser radiation source mounted in proximity to the weapon and also with a detector which is sensitive to the laser radiation. The orientation of the radiation is adjusted independently of the aiming of the weapon in order to carry out continuous detection of the target as a result of detection of radiation by the detector after reflection from the target. The orientation and the time of transit of radiation between source and target are utilized in order to obtain target data relating to position in elevation and in azimuth as well as distance of the target. The data are processed in order to orient a real shot or in order to compare the data quantitatively with the position of a simulated projectile which follows a fictitious trajectory.
摘要:
A multiplicity of launching tubes for nonguided projectiles, clustered about a central axis, are divided into several groups of 2n tubes each, the muzzles of each group of tubes being trained in directions diverging from one another in at least one dimension at a small angle designed to spread the projectiles of each group over a predetermined segment of an area centered on the main axis. The tubes of each group are subdivided into pairs whose muzzles are distributed symmetrically about the main axis and which may be fired simultaneously to provide a balanced recoil. A computer determines from the output of a tracking radar the location of a region of uncertainty, centered on the calculated position of a target to be destroyed, and selects the group or groups whose segments cover that region whereupon the tubes of the selected group or groups are fired simultaneously or in rapid succession. The entire array may undergo a sweep motion in one dimension (e.g. azimuth) while the tubes, with axes diverging in the other dimension (elevation), fire repetitively to cover the assigned sector; this sweep motion is superimposed upon the computer-controlled tracking motion designed to keep the main axis of the array in line with the presumed target position as calculated for the moment of impact.
摘要:
This invention provides a method of and a device for controlling the firing of a gun equipped with a sighting telescope which, by taking due consideration for the chief parameters, permit of introducing the correction required for firing against a moving target. This correction is obtained by moving the cross-hairs of the sighting telescope which is responsive to servo-means and adapted to travel through an angular distance equal to Omega T in the direction opposite to the pursuit direction. This value Omega T is mainly subordinate to the distance and to the speed Omega of the target which determine the gun pursuit speed and also to the time T of the shell or projectile course. The correction may be introduced according to two different methods: in the first method, the position of the cross-hairs of the sighting telescope is acted upon continuously, and in the second method requiring the use of a fixed pair of cross-hairs and of a movable pair of cross-hairs the correction is introduced only at the last moment on the firer''s will, when the pursuit is stabilized.