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US 11,768,065 B2Granted
Weapon control
AssigneeBAE SYSTEMS plc
InventorsJulian David Wright, Martyn John Hucker, Benjamin Daniel Worrall
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the control of weapons, particularly weapons which are controlled via a communications link, possibly at some distance from the weapon's location. The invention is to an apparatus comprising safety-critical and non-safety-critical functional parts wherein at least one of a plurality of safety-critical functional parts is only connected to at least one other of the plurality of safety-critical functional parts.
Claims14
An aerial vehicle, comprising:
- a communications module operable to wirelessly receive commands from a remote system;
- an apparatus including safety-critical functional parts, wherein the safety-critical functional parts are only connected to one or more other safety-critical functional parts, wherein the safety-critical functional parts comprise MilSpec (military-specification) components, at least one of the safety-critical functional parts being related to arming or triggering a weapon;
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- a fire controller communicatively coupled to the apparatus, and operable to receive commands received by the communications module and to issue corresponding commands to the apparatus, wherein in response to a failure mode no commands can be issued by the fire controller to the apparatus.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.