INDIVIDUAL-USE GUIDED ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: rocketry, in particular, guided missiles allotted to portable anti-aircraft complexes intended for interception of aerial targets. SUBSTANCE: missile has infrared homing head 1 with target bearing pick-off 2, solid-propellant engine installation with two-regime cruise engine 10 and booster rocket 11 trapped in the launching tube, control department 3 with control actuator 4, on-board power source 5 and on-board connector 6 switching the missile circuits to the launcher before the launch, and high-explosive warhead 7, including the fuse actuating unit, main eddy-current target sensor and duplicating impact target sensor. To enhance the probability of target destruction, the body of warhead 7 accommodates a laser contactless target sensor and shaper of controlled delay of warhead blasting pulse. Control of delay of blasting pulse of warhead 7 is accomplished by anti-aircraft gunner by means of switches on the launching tube and launcher, as well as by automatic selector of the "pursuit-toward" interception regimes owing to the coupling of the delay shaper control circuit to infrared homing head bearing pick-off 2. Thus, due to selection of the delay value the moment of warhead blasting is determined, which takes into account the target flight speed and direction, target dimensions and conditions of its interception ("pursuit" or "toward"). EFFECT: enhanced efficiency. 2 dwg