PROCEDURE TO ARM AIRBORNE SYSTEMS OF GUIDED PROJECTILE Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: armament , specifically, artillery guided projectiles with laser homing head. SUBSTANCE: clock mechanism is set in motion under action of barrel overload, after expire of time set in clock mechanism inertial gyroscope is uncaged, airborne storage battery feeding airborne equipment is armed and storage batteries of homing head are reset from it in sequence. When one storage battery of homing head achieves operational condition nose unit is shot off opening entrance pupil of homing head. Vanes of steering drive open by lock-on signal formed by homing head after it begins reception of signals reflected from target. EFFECT: raised precision of guidance. 1 dwg