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US 4500051Tier 1 — UAP Program Assignee

GYRO STABILIZED OPTICS WITH FIXED DETECTOR

Assignee

Raytheon

Filed as: RAYTHEON COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE

Filed

May 8, 1975

Granted

Feb 19, 1985

Location

TX US

Abstract

A cannon launched guided projectile having a gyro based electro-optical target finding and guidance system which includes an optical system carried by a gyro to provide target location information for an electronic system to produce gyro rotor torquing signals and for producing projectile guidance signals from gyro pickoff outputs is disclosed. The electronics system includes two difference channels for processing pitch and yaw signals responsive to the electrical output of a light detector and a sum channel for controlling the two difference channels responsive to target acquisition and master trigger signals.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Imposed

Aug 25, 1982

Rescinded

Aug 15, 1984

Duration

1 year, 11 months

Inventor

  • 1WILBUR W. COTTLE

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