System for guiding missiles for vehicles and moving targets
AssigneeCmi Defence S.A.
InventorsChristian RONDEUX, Pierre BALTHASART
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Abstract
An armored vehicle has a turret having a gun; a targeting system which is arranged inside the turret and is provided with a day channel, a night or thermal channel and a laser range-finder, a power control system for controlling the movement of the turret in azimuth and the movement of the gun in elevation; a device for guiding missiles using lasers, which generates a laser guiding line; and a turret controller which determines the mode for guiding the missile, wherein the turret has gyrostabilizer for gyrostabilizing the laser-guiding line.
Claims10
An armored vehicle comprising a turret including a cannon;
- a sight system installed in the turret, the sight system including a day channel, a night or thermal channel, and a laser telemeter, the sight system further including a power control system configured to command movement of the turret in azimuth and movement of the cannon in elevation;
- a laser missile guidance device, configured to generate a laser guidance line;
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- a turret network controller configured to determine a missile guidance,
- wherein the sight system further includes a sight line gyrostabilizer configured to provide a line of sight which is gyrostabilized relative to an inertial frame of reference,
- wherein the sight system further includes a laser line gyrostabilizer configured to gyrostabilize the laser guidance line by servo-control of the laser guidance line with respect to the gyrostabilized line of sight, such that the laser guidance line is continuously parallel to the line of sight,
- wherein the laser missile guidance device includes a laser line modifier configured to modify the laser guidance line, by a motorized platform servo-controlled along at least two axes, in elevation and in azimuth, and
- wherein the sight line gyrostabilizer and the laser line modifier are separate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.