METHOD OF FLIGHT CONTROL OF AIR-TO-SURFACE HOMING MISSILE AND DEVICE FOR ITS REALIZATION Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: rocketry, applicable in control systems of aircraft air-to-surface missiles. SUBSTANCE: in the process of automatic flight the parameters of missile motion in space measured in the autopilot and homing head and computed in a special device are analyzed in this device, the threshold values of these parameters in the flight path depending on the conditions of use are computer and compared between them-selves. If even one of the parameters being analyzed gets out of the limits of the threshold value, it means that the homing head has lost the target. In this case a flexible missile control program is formed, that depends on the missile spatial attitude beginning from the moment of determination of the fact of target loss by the homing head to the moment of collision with the earth surface, providing for pushing over of the missile and subsequent turn in the "launching point-target" direction. EFFECT: reduced area of probable fall of air-to-surface missile that has lost the target on the average by 10 times. 5 cl, 5 dwg