Multiple kill vehicle (MKV) interceptor with improved pre-ejection acquisition and discrimination

    公开(公告)号:US10715781B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-14

    申请号:US16371913

    申请日:2019-04-01

    申请人: Raytheon Company

    摘要: An MKV interceptor includes a carrier vehicle (CV) that supports the deployment of M kill vehicles (KVs) and provides centralized acquisition and discrimination pre-ejection. Pre-ejection each KV acquires and transmits IR imagery, and possibly visible imagery, via an internal communication bus to a central processor on the CV. The central processor spatially registers the IR images from the different KVs, either directly from the IR images themselves or using the visible imagery, and sums the IR (and visible) images to form a registered spatially averaged IR image. This image has the same resolution but higher SNR than any one of the KV IR images. The central processor uses this registered spatially averaged image during pre-ejection acquisition and discrimination modes. The key benefit is the elimination of independent CV “sense capability”, which is large, heavy and expensive, and was required by either the “command guided” or “sharing” concepts.

    Long range KV-to-KV communications to inform target selection of follower KVS
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    发明授权
    Long range KV-to-KV communications to inform target selection of follower KVS 有权
    远程KV至KV通信,以通知目标选择跟随器KVS

    公开(公告)号:US09476677B1

    公开(公告)日:2016-10-25

    申请号:US14730884

    申请日:2015-06-04

    申请人: Raytheon Company

    IPC分类号: F41G7/30 F41G7/22

    摘要: A KV-based missile defense system and method of strategic engagement provides performance improvement for both singleton and raid scenarios by launching multiple interceptors that place a follower KV in a trailing position with respect to a lead KV. Knowledge of the target cloud gained by the lead KV is transmitted to the follower KV and incorporated to inform the target selection of the follower KV. The follower KV trails the lead KV with sufficient spacing in time and distance to select a target and maneuver to engage the target pre-acquisition. This also allows the follower KV to receive and incorporate knowledge of target impact by the lead KV. This knowledge may be transmitted back to another follower KV and so forth in a “string” of KVs to inform target selection and down to the ground to inform strategic engagement. Updated non-KV observational data can be uplinked and transmitted forward along the string to the lead KV.

    摘要翻译: 基于KV的导弹防御系统和战略参与方法通过启动将跟随器KV相对于导线KV放置在拖尾位置的多个拦截器来为单重和突发情况提供性能改进。 由导线KV获得的目标云的知识被传送到跟随器KV并且被并入以通知跟随器KV的目标选择。 跟随者KV在时间和距离上具有足够的间隔距离,以选择目标和操纵以接合目标预采集。 这也允许追随者KV接收和引入由导线KV引起的目标影响的知识。 这些知识可以传回到KV的“串”中的另一个跟随者KV等,以通知目标选择并向下到位以通知战略参与。 更新的非KV观测数据可以被上行链接并沿着字符串向前发送到引导KV。

    Hyper-velocity penetrating probe for spectral characterization

    公开(公告)号:US10024696B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-17

    申请号:US15151666

    申请日:2016-05-11

    申请人: RAYTHEON COMPANY

    IPC分类号: G01D5/353 F42B30/00

    摘要: A hyper-velocity impact sensor including an optical fiber probe that transmits an optical pulse generated during impact with an object, a spectroscopic analyzer that receives the optical pulse and produces spectral information about the optical pulse, a connecting optical fiber configured to convey the optical pulse between the optical fiber probe and the spectroscopic analyzer, and at least one processor coupled to the spectroscopic analyzer and configured to receive and analyze the spectral information to determine at least one chemical element or compound contained in the object.