RU2705730C1 - Method of aircraft protection against missile damage in rear hemisphere - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: military equipment.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to antiaircraft weapons. Method of aircraft protection against missile damage in rear hemisphere consists in release of gliding false target – simulator of aircraft features on cable from its board on high-speed winch. False target imitates the widest range of aircraft features, which identifies the attacking missile, simultaneously the aircraft attenuates its features as much as possible. Control system of aircraft through signal wire, combined with rope and connected with false target, aligns flight trajectory in straight line: aircraft, false target, attacking missile. At safe distance from aircraft there is a meeting and anticipatory blasting of enemy attacking missile with fighting charge of false target.

EFFECT: invention is aimed at increasing the aircraft protection reliability degree.

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Description

The invention relates to air defense weapons and is intended to protect the aircraft from being hit by an attacking missile in the rear hemisphere.

For a combat aircraft in aerial combat, the rear hemisphere is the most vulnerable spot. The enemy’s approach into the tail of an aircraft almost always ends with its destruction. The defeat of an airplane by a rocket occurs mainly on a catch-up course. Currently existing systems for protecting an aircraft from a missile in the rear hemisphere are based on counteracting it’s ability to identify a target, suppressing the guidance system, and also using a complex maneuver in the air.

The objective of the present invention is to provide a reliable method of protecting an aircraft that is not related to the traditional competition process of targeting systems with their suppression systems. The problem is solved by copying natural technology, which is considered the most advanced in the scientific community (see www.saveras.ru. Materials of the meeting of the Council on Science and Education on nature-like technologies). At its core, the proposed method is similar to "autotomy" in animals (www.myplanet-ua.com. "Why do lizards throw their tail"). The closest prototype of the invention is a patent for the invention US 25333814A (British Aerospace Public Limited Co), 02.08.1994. It has not received practical widespread use, since the lateral wind load on the cable significantly limits the ability of the “towed air body to maneuver around the flight path of the aircraft” at large angles of attack and yaw.

A way to protect the aircraft from being hit by a missile in the rear hemisphere is to release on a cable from its side on a high-speed winch a planning false target - an imitator of airplane attributes. A false target imitates the widest range of aircraft attributes that an attacking rocket identifies, while the aircraft muffles, if possible, its attributes. This is a significant difference from the "air body" towed in the prototype. The aircraft control system through a signal wire, combined with a cable and connected to a false target, aligns the flight path in a straight line: aircraft → false target → attack missile. Closing a false target from an attacking missile, the aircraft simultaneously reduces the lateral wind load on the cable, which is the second significant difference from the prototype, in which the "air body" maneuvers around the flight path of the aircraft. At a safe distance from the aircraft, a meeting is made and preemptive detonation of the attacking missile of the enemy by the combat charge of a false target. After destroying a false target, the defense of the aircraft prepares the next false target, since the enemy can send several attacking missiles. Additionally, it becomes possible to solve new combat missions of the operational-tactical level. A high-speed UAV with the described method of protection is capable of provoking the enemy to use ammunition of ground-to-air missiles and thereby create air corridors on the territory of the enemy for the further entry of combat manned aircraft into them.

The proposed method of protecting an airplane is simple, technologically sophisticated, has a high degree of reliability and is capable of guaranteed closing the rear hemisphere of an airplane from being hit by air-to-air or ground-to-air missiles.

Claims (1)

A way to protect an aircraft from being hit by a missile in the rear hemisphere is to release a planning false target - a simulator of airplane attributes on a cable from its side on a high-speed winch - simulating the airplane’s control system to align the flight path in a straight line: an airplane, a false target, an attacking missile, meeting and preemptive blasting attacking enemy rockets with a warhead of a false target.