Radio controlled ammunition
AssigneeAlcated Lucent
InventorsWolfgang Templ, Dirk Wiegner
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Abstract
Radio controlled cartridge ammunition (20; 30) for a weapon (26), wherein the ammunition comprises control circuitry (21) adapted to enable and/or disable a mechanism for the ignition of the propellant charge (32) of the ammunition (20; 30) in response to a wireless radio control signal. Thereby the control circuitry (21) extracts, from the wireless radio control signal received at the ammunition's geographical location, information indicative of said geographical location, and compares the extracted information with information indicative of a geographical area where the ammunition (20; 30) is allowed to be fired off the weapon (26). Hence, the ignition mechanism is controlled based on the result of the comparison.
Claims15
An ammunition for a weapon, the ammunition comprising:
- control circuitry adapted to enable and/or disable an ignition mechanism of the ammunition in response to a wireless radio control signal, wherein the control circuitry is adapted to extract, from the wireless radio control signal received at the ammunition's geographical location, information indicative of said geographical location, to compare the extracted information with information indicative of a geographical area where the ammunition is allowed to be fired off the weapon, and to control the ignition mechanism based on the result of the comparison.
A method for controlling an ignition mechanism of an ammunition for a weapon, the method comprising:
- receiving, at the ammunition, a wireless radio control signal;
- and
- extracting, from the wireless radio control signal received at the ammunition's geographical location, information indicative of said geographical location;
- comparing the extracted information with information indicative of a geographical area where the ammunition is allowed to be fired off the weapon;
- and
- enabling and/or disabling the ignition mechanism of the ammunition based on the result of the comparison.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.