Projectile steering by plasma discharge
AssigneeInstitut Franco-Allemand de Recherches de Saint-Louis
InventorsPatrick Gnemmi, Romain Charon, Michel Samirant
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Abstract
A device and method for guiding or steering projectiles (self-propelled or non-self-propelled), or missiles, and for steering a supersonic projectile, or a missile, having a nose, generally in the shape of a cone, having a more or less pointed end, and capable of creating a plasma discharge near the end of the projectile over a limited sector of the outer surface of nose.
Claims8
A method for steering, in a direction Y, a supersonic projectile or a missile having a generally cone-shaped nose, that has a substantially pointed end, comprising discharging plasma over a limited sector of the outer surface of the nose on the side of direction Y.
A method for steering a supersonic projectile or a missile having a nose, generally cone-shaped, that has a substantially pointed end, comprising, for each change in the trajectory of the projectile or the missile, discharging plasma proximate the end over a limited sector of the outer surface of the nose on a side corresponding to a direction toward which the trajectory is to be changed.
A device for steering a supersonic projectile or a missile having a nose, generally cone-shaped, that has a substantially pointed end, comprising means for emitting a plasma discharge proximate the end over a limited sector of the outer surface of the nose on a side of the nose toward which direction the projectile or the missile is to be steered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.