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United States Patent | 7,698,983 |
Pinto , et al. | April 20, 2010 |
A portable, self-contained fire control system includes one or more of: 1) the means to provide geodetic positioning and navigational data for the host weapon platform in relation to established coordinate reference systems; 2) the means to digitally communicate with an off-platform command and control network; 3) the means to compute host platform ballistics data; 4) the means to indicate the current weapon orientation and additionally to indicate the horizontal and vertical weapon movements required to aim the weapon; 5) the means to inductively set fuzes for firing; 6) the means for digitally receiving and processing pre-computed mission data through to the fuze/projectile; 7) the means for locally computing mission data; and 8) the means for manually entering pre-computed data into the system.
Inventors: | Pinto; Robert P. (Dover, NJ), Schneck; Gregory (Morganville, NJ), Alameda; Patricia M. (Budd Lake, NJ), Coradeschi; Tom (Hackettstown, NJ) |
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Assignee: |
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
(Washington,
DC)
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Family ID: | 42104641 |
Appl. No.: | 11/549,784 |
Filed: | October 16, 2006 |
Application Number | Filing Date | Patent Number | Issue Date | ||
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60597024 | Nov 4, 2005 | ||||
60746699 | May 8, 2006 | ||||
Current U.S. Class: | 89/6.5; 102/275.11; 102/275.9; 89/6 |
Current CPC Class: | F42C 17/00 (20130101) |
Current International Class: | F42C 17/00 (20060101) |
Field of Search: | ;89/6,6.5 ;102/301-304,275.9,275.11 |
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