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US 4,463,921 AGranted
Gas jet steering device and method missile comprising such a device
AssigneeThomson-Brandt
InventorPierre Metz
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Abstract
A steering device comprising an annular element having N exhaust nozzles and a rotary element disposed coaxially inside said annular element; the rotary element comprising M gas passageways may be positioned in MN discrete directions so as to provide a transverse thrust force orientated in one of the steering planes.
Claims12
A gas jet steering device for a guided missile, said get jet steering device comprising:
- (a) an annular element having a plurality N of equi-angularly spaced fixed exhaust nozzles inclined at and angle .alpha. to the longitudinal axis of the guided missile;
- (b) a rotary switching element disposed coaxially inside said annular element, said rotary switching element having a plurality M of gas flow passageways terminating in equi-angularly spaced outlets located in position to communicate with the inlets of said fixed nozzles, the integers M and N being different from one another;
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- (c) positioning means for rotating said rotary switch elements so as to selectively open and close communication between each of said M gas flow passageways and said N fixed nozzles, thereby steering the guided missile.
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