Canard control assembly for a projectile
AssigneeSanders Associates, Inc.
InventorsGeorge Sebestyen, Ronald R. Sinclair, John A. Smith, Timothy B. Sands, Theodore J. Nussdorfer
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Abstract
Control is provided to conventional gun-fired projectiles by substituting for the standard fuze thereof a device comprising a canard frame and a main housing, which threads into the fuze well of the projectile, with the canard frame being rotatable with respect to the main housing and having deflectable canards thereon for providing vernier correction on the trajectory to the projectile.
Claims10
Apparatus for providing precision correction to the trajectory of a standard gun-fired projectile by providing a device which is adapted to be screwed into the fuze well of the standard projectile, comprising:
- a main housing having means for inserting same into the fuze well of the gun-fired projectile thereby adapting the projectile to supply guidance thereto;
- a canard frame coupled to said main housing for relative rotation thereto about the longitudinal axis thereof;
- said canard frame having deflectable canards thereon;
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- means for deflecting said canards to guide the projectile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.