AIRCRAFT MISSILE COMPLEX Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC B64D5/00 B64D3/00 F42B15/10 B64G1/00 

FIELD: aeronautical and space engineering; aircraft missile complexes with heavy ballistic missiles (more than 100 tons in mass) equipped with liquid-propellant engines and launched in air for injection of spacecraft into orbits.

SUBSTANCE: aircraft missile complex includes aircraft, launch vehicle, device for mating the launch vehicle with aircraft used as towing vehicles, systems ensuring their proper functioning and ground transportation and acceleration platform equipped with acceleration engines. Mounted additionally on launch vehicle body are fairing with wing mounted on it and nose and tail fairings. Tail fairing is provided with stabilizer and vertical tail unit. Fairings may be separated from launch vehicle. Area of launch vehicle wing may be changed after aircraft takeoff due to separation of parts of wings which are secured separately; they are equidimensional in pairs and are symmetrical relative to wing longitudinal axis; they are separated with the aid of detonating elongated charges located over perimeter of profiles of separable parts of wing.

EFFECT: increased flight range and altitude due to reduced mass and drag of wing; increased mass of spacecraft injected into orbits.

3 cl, 1 dwg