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US 7,726,244 B1Granted
Mine counter measure system
AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorRichard M. Lloyd
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Abstract
A method of destroying mines in a minefield buried under the surface includes deploying a munition including a plurality of kinetic energy rods each having a stabilizer into a position above the minefield and deploying the rods above the minefield to fall towards the minefield each aligned along a velocity vector to penetrate the surface and destroy the mines.
Claims3
A method of destroying mines in a minefield buried under the surface, the method comprising:
- deploying a munition including a plurality of kinetic energy rods each having a stabilizer into a position above the minefield;
- and
- deploying the rods above the minefield to fall towards the minefield each aligned along a velocity vector to penetrate the surface and destroy the mines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.