Abstract:
1. A gas generator charge comprising: A FIRST CYLINDRICAL SOLID PROPELLANT GRAIN HAVING DISPOSED CONCENTRICALLY THEREIN A SECOND LESS TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE SOLID PROPELLANT STRAND, WHEREIN SAID SECOND PROPELLANT STRAND IS SMALLER THAN SAID FIRST GRAIN SO AS NOT TO MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE GAS PRODUCTION OF THE PROPELLANT AS WHOLE.
Abstract:
1. IN A TRACKING SYSTEM TRACKER UNIT WHICH DEVELOPS ELECTRICAL TRACKING ERROR CORRECTION SIGNALS THAT CONTROL THE VIEWING AXIS OF A TELEVISION CAMERA SENSOR UNIT IN TRACKING RELATION TO A SELECTED TARGET AND THAT ARE SOURCED IN TARGET MARKER PULSE RELATED TO AN OPPOSED EDGE OF THE TARGET THROUGH THE TELEVISION CAMERA SENSOR UNIT OUTPUT VIDEO SIGNAL AND SINGULARLY POSITIONED IN EACH LINE OF SENSOR UNIT SCAN IN TIME-COINCIDENT RELATION WITH A TRACKING GATE PULSE TO INDICATE REQUIRED CORRECTION IN ONE DIRECTION OF TWO OPPOSED DIRECTIONS, IN COMBINATION: (A) SUMMING CIRCUIT MEANS HAVING A PAIR OF INPUT CHANNELS WHICH EACH RECEIVE A DIFFERENT PULSED TRACKING ERROR DETECTION SIGNAL RELATED TO ONE OF SAID TWO OPPOSED DIRECTIONS AND DEVELOPING A TRACKING ERROR CORRECTION SIGNAL WHICH RELATES TO SAID ONE DIRECTION AND WHICH IS BASED ON THE SINGULAR EXISTENCE OF ONE DIFFERENT PULSED TRACKING ERROR DETECTION SIGNAL IN A GIVEN LINE OF SENSOR UIT SCAN, (B) MEANS DEVELOPING TRIGGERING PULSES ECH OF WHICH COMMENCES WITH THE START OF A TRACKING GATE PULSE, EACH OF WHICH ENDS WITH A TARGET MARKER PULSE COINCIDENT WITH SAID TRACKING ERROR DETECTION ASSOCIATED WITH ONE INDICATES TRACKING ERROR DETECTION ASSOCIATED WITH ONE OF SAID TWO OPOSED DIRECTIONS, (C) LINEARIZING CIRCUIT MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SIAD TRIGGERING PULSES AND PRODUCING TRACKING ERROR DETECTION SIGNAL PULSES WHICH COMPRISE SAID ONE DIFFERENT PULSED TRACKING ERROR DETECTION SIGNAL AND WHICH EACH ESSENTIALLY CONSTITUTE AN EXTENSION OF ONE OF SAID TRIGGERING PULSES TO A TOTAL INDIVIDUAL TIME DURATION WHICH IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE INDIVIDUAL DURATION OF SAID TRIGGERING PULSE, AND (B) SEPERATE CIRCUIT MEANS CONDUCTING SAID TRACKING ERROR DETECTION SIGNAL PULSES FROM SAID LINEARIZING CIRCUIT MEANS TO ONE INPUT CHANNEL OF SAID SUMMING CIRCUIT MEANS, SAID TRACKING ERROR DETECTION SIGNAL PULSES EACH BEING PROPORTIONAL TO THE DEGREE OF TRACKING ERROR DETECTED IN ONE OF SAID TWO OPPOSED DIRECTIONS AND INCREASING THE LOOP GAIN OF THE TRACKING UNIT AND ALSO OF THE TRACKING SYSTEM.
Abstract:
In a directionally-ranging device adapted for airborne use as a terrain-following system, means for limiting or modifying the effective field of view of the system during a lateral or turning maneuver of a utilizing vehicle, to view that terrain about the predicted flight path associated with such maneuver. The azimuth direction angle of the directivity of the directionally-ranging device is varied from a forward direction toward the direction of the turn maneuver, while range-gating means blanks-out signals received from terrain lying in such maneuver direction and beyond the predicted flight path, whereby the utility of such terrain following system during lateral maneuvering is improved.