The development of the longitudinal restraint mechanism for the Army's Patriot missile system is reviewed. The initial design was an ordnance pin puller with a shear plane. Because of reliability problems and a desire to reduce cost, a fly-away restraint mechanism was chosen. After being manually unlocked, the restraint pin disengages the missile during launch by missile motion.
Fly-away restraint pin mechanism for the Army's PATRIOT missile system
1977-04-28
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
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RAM growth of the PATRIOT missile system
Tema Archiv | 1987
|Theater Missile Defense: Beyond Patriot
NTIS | 1994
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