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2 20 - I /, // Sf-I4: United States Patent (191
2 20 - I /, // Sf-I4: United States Patent (191
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[5 4] INFRA RED TARGET SENSOR AND SYSTEM
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Patent Number:
Date of Patent:
4,598,884
Jul. 8, 1986
Pomona Cahf'
Johnson
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ABSTRACT
A gimbal-less infrared (IR) target sensor for mounting
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244/516 102/476
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sensor is used in conjunction with a shaped-charge car
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mirror.
2. The sensor according to claim 1 wherein:
said primary mirror is concave.
shaped-charge.
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system comprising:
a primary mirror mounted in the base of an IR trans
missive nose cone for receiving IR radiation from a
target and for focusing the IR radiation on a sec
ondary mirror;
sive jet.
mirror;
said shaped-charge.
jet of a shaped-charge.
Although the invention is described primarily in
terms of IR missile guidance, this invention is not so "
sensor.
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prising:
a primary mirror mounted in the base of a nose cone
shaped-charge.
12. The system according to claim 8 wherein:
said IR transmissive elements are equiangularly