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US 9,032,878 B1Granted
Obscurant generating, ground-based, networked munition
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorsVictor Kokodis, George Sudol, Stephen Bielamowicz, Eric Barker
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Abstract
An Ottawa Convention—compliant system that replaces the current battlefield utility provided by anti-personnel landmines. This system utilizes obscurants to inhibit and deter the enemy's ability to breach and clear ground based mine and munition systems.
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A munition system that inhibits the ability to breach a ground-based mine field by providing a concealment to the munitions within the ground-based mine field, the munition system comprising:
- (a) a plurality of sensors that are networked to collect field data indicative of an intrusive movement within the ground-based mine field;
- (b) at least some of which sensors are incorporated within the munitions;
- (c) said field data including:
- any movement within the minefield;
- whether the movement is caused by an intruder;
- whether the intruder is human or non-human;
- the number of intruders;
- the direction of movement of each intruder;
- the speed of movement of each intruder;
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- data on the wind;
- (d) a processor that analyses the collected field data;
- (e) at least one obscurant compartment that contains an obscurant generator;
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- (f) based upon the analyzed field data, the processor causing the obscurant generator to produce an obscurant smoke screen, and further causing the obscurant smoke screen to be selectively released from the at least one obscurant compartment in order to optimally conceal the munitions.
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