Radar apparatus for missile guidance control

Abstract

Abstract 1. MISSILE GUIDANCE APPARATUS FOR USE IN HOMING A MISSILE ON TO A TARGET COMPRISING: MEANS FOR IRRADIATING THE TARGET AND THE MISSILE WITH PULSED RADAR SIGNALS, A SIGNAL RECEIVER FOR RECEIVING IN A COMMON CHANNEL PULSED RADAR SIGNALS REFLECTED FROM THE TARGET AND PULSED RADAR SIGNALS REFLECTED FROM THE MISSILE, MEANS FOR SEPARATING THE TARGET SIGNALS FROM THE MISSILE SIGNALS, A SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, MEANS FOR FEEDING THE SEPARATED TARGET SIGNALS IN ONE TIME-DIVISION CHANNEL AND THE SEPARATED MISSILE SIGNALS IN ANOTHER TIME-DIVISION CHANNEL THROUGH SAID SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT COMMON TO THE TWO TIME-DIVISION CHANNELS, MEANS FOR PRODUCING ON A SCREEN CONTINUOUS DISPLAYS OF AN IMAGE OF THE TARGET AND AN IMAGE OF THE MISSILE, SAID SIGNAL RECEIVER COMPRISING A RADAR SCANNER ADAPTED TO BE SO CONTROLLED AS TO TRACK THE TARGET, AN OPTICAL VIEWING SYSTEM ARRANGED TO BE DRIVEN SO AS TO FOLLOW THE MOVEMENTS OF THE RADAR SCANNER AND THEREBY TRACK THE TARGET, AND MEANS FOR OPTICALLY PROJECTING THE SAID DISPLAY OF THE TARGET AND MISSILE SO THAT OBSERVER CAN OBSERVE AN IMAGE THEREOF SUPERIMPOSED UPON THE OPTICAL IMAGE OF THE OPTICAL VIEWING SYSTEM.

Inventors

• 👤 John Dent

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