A guidable sonobuoy is disclosed that is ejected from a moving aircraft into the free stream with a ring wing opened to guide the buoy along a predetermined flight path. While the buoy remains packed inside a launch container, the ring wing, made of spring steel, is collapsed around the nose portion thereof. Once launched, the ring wing will fly the buoy to a predetermined destination.
Guidable Stores
1990
13 pages
Report
No indication
English
Ocean Sciences & Technology , Flight paths , Patent applications , Springs , Sonobuoys , Acoustic Detection , Steel , Aircraft , Buoys , Free stream , Spring steel , Noses , Aerodynamic stability , Gliding , Motion , Air launched , Instruments , Guidable stores , Containers , Launching , Ring wings , Expandable structures
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