Expendable sonobuoy flight kit deployment and communications...

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B - Operations, Transporting

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B64D 1/02 (2006.01) B64C 31/00 (2006.01) B64C 39/02 (2006.01) F41G 7/00 (2006.01) F41H 13/00 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2606605

Disclosed herein is an expendable flight kit attachable to a sonobuoy or sonobuoy shaped object for making use of said sonobuoy as a central structural load-bearing component of a flying assembly, the kit comprising rigid aerodynamic surfaces to provide lift and stability; a propulsion system; a plurality of control surfaces and surface actuators; a flight control system, the flight control system being operable for receiving mission parameters including sonobuoy deployment co-ordinates, the flight control system being operable for autonomously navigating and steering the flying assembly; the flying assembly operable to be launched from a ship; the flight control system operable for separating the sonobuoy from the flight kit while in flight at an acceptable proximity to a pre-designated set of co-ordinates, wherein after separation of the sonobuoy from the flight kit, both the sonobuoy and the flight kit fall into the water.

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