Missile defense system with dynamic trajectory adjustment
AssigneeTechnology Patents, LLC
InventorAris Mardirossian
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Abstract
A missile defense system includes a tracking station for monitoring the course and/or trajectory of an incoming missile. The incoming missile course and/or trajectory information is communicated to an intercept missile, whose course and/or trajectory are calculated based on the information of the incoming missile received from the tracking system and the intercept missile location received from, for example, a GPS system. The tracking system monitors the flight of the incoming missile to determine any changes to its course and/or trajectory, and communicates these changes to the intercept missile. The intercept missile adjusts its course and/or trajectory based on the updated information received from the tracking station to provide accurate and reliable intercept of the incoming missile.
Claims14
A missile defense system including at least one intercept missile, the missile defense system comprising:
- an incoming missile tracking system for detecting the launch of or identifying an incoming missile, and monitoring said incoming missile to determine at least one of a course and trajectory of the incoming missile, including any changes in course or trajectory of the incoming missile;
- a communication system for receiving incoming missile information from the incoming missile tracking system, and transmitting at least one of initial course and trajectory information to the intercept missile, the transmitted information being based on incoming missile information;
- circuitry for adjusting at least one of the course and trajectory of the intercept missile based on updated incoming missile information and a current location of the intercept missile.
A method of providing missile defense, comprising:
- identifying an incoming missile;
- monitoring said incoming missile to determine at least one of a course and trajectory of said incoming missile, and any changes thereto;
- transmitting at least one of said course and trajectory information of said incoming missile and any changes thereto to an intercept missile;
- launching an intercept missile;
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- dynamically adjusting at least one of a course and trajectory of said intercept missile based on at least one of said course and trajectory information of said incoming missile and any changes thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.