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US 5,206,452 AGranted
Distributed weapon launch system
AssigneeBritish Aerospace Public Limited Company
InventorsRalph H. Stamper, Deborah Norman
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Abstract
A battery of dispersed missile launch stations (1-4) are linked to a central communications station (5) which assigns different targets to respective launch stations. The communications station ensures that only one launch station engages each target.
Claims15
A distributed weapon system comprising:
- a central communications station;
- a plurality of weapon launch stations;
- a communications link between each weapon launch station and the central communications station;
- and in which each weapon launch station includes
- (i) means for engaging a first target,
- (ii) means for transmitting data relating to the location of the first target to another weapon launch station via the central communications station,
- (iii) means for receiving from another weapon launch station via the central communications station data relating to the location of a second target, and
- (iv) means for inhibiting engagement of the second target.
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A distributed weapon system comprising:
- a first weapon launch station including means for engaging a target and means for transmitting data relating to the location of the target to a central communications station;
- wherein said central communications station includes means for receiving said first data and means for transmitting said first data to a second weapon launch station;
- wherein said second launch station includes means for receiving said data and means responsive to said data for inhibiting engagement of the target.
A method of controlling weapons in a distributed weapon system comprising the steps of:
- engaging a target with a first weapon launch station;
- transmitting data relating to the location of the target to a central communications station;
- receiving said data at said central communications station;
- transmitting said data from said central communications station to a second weapon launch station;
- receiving said data at said second launch station;
- and
- inhibiting engagement of the target by said second launch station responsive to said received data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.