Aircraft overpressure trap
OwnerPatrick J. G. Stiennoninventor
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Abstract
My invention consists of a method of using the overpressure shock from a large number of air bursts, i.e., small explosives placed on the ground, to destroy aerial targets. The destruction of said aerial targets is effected by placing the explosive charges on a surface, all points of which are equidistant from the target. Alternately, the explosives are detonated on a surface which is NOT equidistant to the target at all points, but the explosives are delayed in such a manner that the shock wave from all of the explosive packages reach the target at the same time, they constructively interfere to cause a region of high overpressure which destroys the target.
Claims6
An apparatus for destroying airborne vehicles with an overpressure wave, which comprises:
- a. a multiplicity of explosive charges;
- b. a rigid surface;
- c. a means for detonating said explosive charges, which are placed on said rigid surface and detonated, so that the overpressure wave from each explosive charge reaches a focus at the same time, whereby an aircraft at said focus is impinged upon by the sum of the overpressure waves from each of the multiple explosive charges.
A method of creating a localized region of high overpressure above a rigid surface which comprises:
- a. placing a multiplicity of explosive charges on the exposed side of the rigid surface;
- and,
- b. detonating said explosive charges with such delay for each explosive charge that the overpressure wave from each explosive charge reaches the focus at the same time, whereby the target is subjected to all the overpressure waves at the same time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.