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AssigneeSaab AB
InventorsChrister Zatterqvist, Johan Friede
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The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for discharging countermeasure means from a carrier craft in the form of an aircraft or equivalent. In this connection, the countermeasure means is intended to be spread initially in the form of unit packs (13, 13′ and 20) which, after they have left the carrier craft, are to screen the same (23) from missiles (24) approaching is guided by built-in sensors, or other threats. It is especially characteristic of the invention that the unit countermeasure packs (13, 13′ and 20) are spread from the carrier (2) transversely to the lying direction of the carrier craft.
A method for, from a secondary carrier, in the form of a load capsule or equivalent, arranged on a carrier craft, in the form of an aircraft or equivalent, spreading a countermeasure means arranged initially in unit packs and intended, after the contents of the unit packs have left the latter outside the secondary carrier, to screen the carrier craft or form a decoy in order to deceive or confuse a threat aimed at the carrier craft, wherein the unit countermeasure packs are spread mechanically from the carrier from a number of magazines via discharging locations specific to each of the magazines, in which locations the unit packs are given a defined spreading direction transverse to the flying direction of the carrier craft.
An arrangement for, from a secondary carrier, in the form of a load capsule or equivalent, arranged on a carrier craft, in the form of an aircraft or equivalent, spreading a countermeasure means arranged initially in unit packs and intended, after the contents of the unit packs have left the packs outside the secondary carrier, to screen the carrier craft or form a decoy in order to deceive or confuse a threat aimed at the carrier craft, wherein it comprises a number of magazines arranged side by side for feeding unit countermeasure packs to a discharging location defined for each magazine, the discharging locations of a number of magazines included in the carrier being arranged in one and the same plane which, with the carrier interconnected with the carrier craft, lies transversely to the main flying direction of the carrier craft and within which plane each magazine has been designed with its own radial discharging direction.
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