Methods and devices for guidance and control of high-spin stabilized rounds
AssigneeOmnitek Partners LLC
InventorsJahangir S Rastegar, Jacques Fischer
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Abstract
A method for deploying a control surface from an exterior surface of a spinning projectile during flight is provided. The method including: at least partially retracting the control surface into an interior of the projectile for a portion of a full revolution of the spinning projectile and extending the control surface from the interior of the projectile for another portion of the full revolution of the spinning projectile; and maintaining the control surface in a same plane during the full revolution of the spinning projectile.
Claims10
A method for deploying a control surface from an exterior surface of a spinning projectile during flight, the method comprising:
- at least partially retracting the control surface into an interior of the projectile for a portion of a full revolution of the spinning projectile and extending the control surface from the interior of the projectile for another portion of the full revolution of the spinning projectile;
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- maintaining the control surface in one of a same plane or parallel to the same plane during the full revolution of the spinning projectile.
A projectile comprising:
- a body having an interior;
- a control surface movable between a retracted position at least partially in the interior of the projectile to an extended position extending from an exterior surface of the projectile while the projectile is spinning;
- means for at least partially retracting the control surface into the interior of the projectile for a portion of a full revolution of the spinning projectile and extending the control surface from the interior of the projectile for another portion of the full revolution of the spinning projectile and for maintaining the control surface in one of a same plane or parallel to the same plane during the full revolution of the spinning projectile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.