Anti-ship torpedo defense missile
AssigneeGeneral Dynamics, Pomona Division
InventorsAllen C. Hagelberg, Walter A. Lobitz
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Abstract
A ship anti-torpedo defense system includes a detecting device for detecting and locating an incoming threat, such as a torpedo, and an interrelated missile launching and control system for firing at least one warhead carrying missile into the path of the oncoming threat, the missile having an active acoustic fuze system including a highly directional sensing system for continuously monitoring the position and proximity of the incoming threat and for detonating the warhead at the optimum proximity of the incoming threat with the missile. The missile floats at a predetermined depth determined by the predetermined depth of the torpedo to be intercepted.
Claims15
An anti-torpedo defense system, said system comprising in combination:
- detecting means for detecting and locating an incoming threat;
- missile launching means including a fire control system responsive to said detecting means for launching at least one warhead carrying missile in the path of the incoming threat, said missile having buoyancy control means for controlling the depth of said missile in a body of water, and
- an active fuze system including target sensing and tracking means carried by said missile for detonating the warhead at the optimum proximity of an incoming threat thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.