AIR DEFENSE DESTRUCTION MISSILE WEAPON SYSTEM

Patent №

US 5,458,041

Granted

1995-10-17

Filed 1994

Owner

NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08284875

An air defense missile weapon system in which a plurality of unmanned missiles penetrate, survey, identify, attack and destroy target areas that include air defense sites and sites of military interest. Each of the missiles has an airframe, sensors, data links, propulsion means, and a plurality of control surfaces. The missiles are launched from a carrier aircraft towards the target sites from a stand-off range. The missiles preferably operate in cooperative teams of hunter and killer missiles, and are interoperable with a plurality of military aircraft and other existing weapon systems.

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AI classification

Planning0.94
Evolutionary computation0.02
Vision0.01
AI hardware0.00
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION

assignment · 71230192

Assignors

SUN, JOHN, SANDERS, ROSS J., STARACE, RALPH C., HACKMAN, WILLIAM K.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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