FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A SHORT RANGE, FIBER-OPTIC GUIDED MISSILE

A fire control system for a short range guided missile in which the system is contained on a vehicle such as a track vehicle that can be easily camouflaged from the enemy and including video means for acquiring a target desired to be destroyed and utilizing this video information as reference information in an automatic target handoff correlator which correlates the reference information from video signals from a missile that was launched from the vehicle and guided by a missile control computer to the field of view of the selected target with the automatic target handoff correlator comparing the reference video signals and the seeker video signals from the missile to place the target in the center of the field of view of the seeker and once this is done a missile autotracker is commanded to lock-on and guide the missile to the selected target.