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US 10,215,533 B2Granted
System for guiding missiles for vehicles and moving targets
AssigneeCmi Defence S.A.
InventorsChristian Rondeux, Pierre Balthasart
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Abstract
An armored vehicle has a turret having a gun; a targeting system which is arranged inside the turret and is provided with a day channel, a night or thermal channel and a laser range-finder, a power control system for controlling the movement of the turret in azimuth and the movement of the gun in elevation; a device for guiding missiles using lasers, which generates a laser guiding line; and a turret controller which determines the mode for guiding the missile, wherein the turret has gyrostabilizer for gyrostabilizing the laser-guiding line.
Claims7
An armored vehicle comprising:
- a turret including a cannon;
- a sight system installed in the turret, the sight system including a day channel, a night or thermal channel, and a laser telemeter, the sight system further including a sight line gyrostabilizer configured to provide a line of sight which is gyrostabilized relative to an inertial frame of reference;
- a power control system configured to command movement of the turret in azimuth and movement of the cannon in elevation;
- a laser missile guidance device configured to generate a laser guidance line, the laser missile guidance device including a laser line gyrostabilizer configured to gyrostabilize the laser guidance line with respect to the gyrostabilized line of sight provided by the sight line gyrostabilizer such that the laser guidance line is continuously parallel to the gyrostabilized line of sight, the laser line gyrostabilizer comprising a servo-controlled motorized platform rotatable about at least two axes, in elevation and in azimuth;
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- a turret network controller configured to determine a missile guidance mode,
- wherein the laser missile guidance device is mechanically independent from the sight system.
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