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US 2006/0065774 A1Published application
Anti-missile protection device for an aircraft
AssigneeAirbus SAS
InventorsSerge Roques, Bernard Catteeuw, Olivier Pujol
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Abstract
This protection device (4) includes on the one hand a decoy (10) that permits sending out electromagnetic signals and on the other hand a device (8) that winds/unwinds a cable (6) at one end of which the decoy (10) is secured, with this device permitting to keep the decoy (10) in its wound position on board of the aircraft (2) and in its unwound position at a distance from the aircraft (2).
Claims16
Anti-missile protection device (4) for transportation aircraft (2) comprising
- a decoy (10)
- a winding/unwinding device (8) for a cable (6) at one end to which is secured decoy (10), with this device permitting to maintain decoy (10) in its wound up position inside the aircraft (2) and in its unwound position at a distance from the aircraft (2) and
- a control device that manages the winding and unwinding of cable (6) to which decoy (10) is attached according to the flight stages of the aircraft (2).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.