Abstract: A method is shown to make a relatively thick foraminous plate wherein the inside of each one of the foramina is treated as desired, the disclosed method comprising the steps of working a strip of a metallic or plastic foil to form transverse grooves, treating the worked strip to cause the surfaces of such grooves to have desired qualities and then rolling the strip (or stacking portions thereof) to form the desired foraminous plate.

Abstract: A multiple channel amplifier providing both gain and/or phase shift to a microwave signal is formed of a set of transmission lines connected in parallel by means of a power splitter at the input end and a power combiner at the output end of the set of transmission lines. The transmission lines are disposed in a cylindrical array of electrically conducting bars which support amplifying and/or phase shifting elements between the bars and withdraw heat from the amplifying and/or phase shifting elements. The transmission lines may be slotted or severed for directing power flow towards an output terminal of the amplifier. The amplifying and/or phase shifting elements are conveniently mounted on a set of heat sinks to form modules, each of which is readily inserted and detached from the cylindrical array.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed to decompose, by heating, parts of the insulation on an insulated wire or cable. The disclosed apparatus includes, in combination with conventional feed and cutting mechanisms, a stripping station wherein electrical heating elements are disposed to encompass each part of the insulation to be stripped and to effect the desired decomposition. The electrical heating elements are mounted in frictional contact with movable mounting means in such a fashion that low electrical resistance contacts are made, yet replacement of the heating elements is facilitated.

Abstract: An antitank weapon system is shown to include a projectile carrying at least one pulsed laser radar which periodically illuminates swaths of the underlying terrain, means for processing return signals to distinguish between the radar signatures of objects on such terrain and means for firing submunitions to impact on any object whose radar signature corresponds to that of a tank or other desired target.

Abstract: An antitank weapon system is shown to include a projectile carrying at least one pulsed laser radar which periodically illuminates swaths of the underlying terrain, means for processing return signals to distinguish between the radar signatures of objects on such terrain and means for firing submunitions to impact on any object whose radar signature corresponds to that of a tank or other desired target.

Abstract: An antitank weapon system is shown to include a projectile carrying at least one pulsed laser radar which periodically illuminates swaths of the underlying terrain, means for processing return signals to distinguish between the radar signatures of objects on such terrain and means for firing submunitions to impact on any object whose radar signature corresponds to that of a tank or other desired target.

Abstract: Thick film resistors, particularly useful as elements in a resistive voltage divider on a common substrate, are shown to consist of pluralities of substantially identical segments connected in series or in parallel to obtain desired resistance values, each successive pair of such segments being joined through a low resistance connection.

Abstract: An improved automatic frequency control arrangement for a missile-borne inverse receiver is shown to include a reference oscillator and a voltage-controlled oscillator with control means for the latter, such means including a frequency-to-voltage converter responsive to the difference frequency between the two oscillators so that the latter may produce a signal representative of the Doppler shift frequency of a target. A starting circuit is also shown to ensure that the frequency of the reference oscillator is always lower than the frequency of the voltage-controlled oscillator.

Abstract: A broadband antenna element capable of operating over greater than an octave band of frequencies is disclosed. The element comprises an open-ended rectangular waveguide section having a loop radiator, formed by shorting an insulated probe to one of the broad walls of the waveguide section, disposed therein. Notches are provided in the narrow walls and flanges are provided on the broad walls of the waveguide section for matching purposes. The insulated probe extends through a hole formed in the rear wall of the waveguide section to connect with a stripline feed network.

Abstract: An improved automatic frequency control arrangement for a missile-borne inverse receiver is shown to include a reference oscillator and a voltage-controlled oscillator with control means for the latter, such means including a frequency-to-voltage converter responsive to the difference frequency between the two oscillators so that the latter may produce a signal representative of the Doppler shift frequency of a target. A starting circuit is also shown to ensure that the frequency of the reference oscillator is always lower than the frequency of the voltage-controlled oscillator.

Abstract: A technique is described whereby a continuous wave radar transmitting a carrier with wide band modulation may be arranged adaptively to null large clutter returns from clutter at any range or azimuth.

Abstract: A "free-gyro" configuration of an optical seeker is shown to consist of a focusing and reticle arrangement rotatable about a point on an axis and an optical detector array translatable along a path parallel to such axis to maintain the center of such detector array on the image plane of the focusing and reticle means.

Abstract: An improved radar receiver is shown to include a plurality of intermediate frequency and video frequency amplifiers, each one of such amplifiers being arranged to process received signals within a different range of amplitudes so that the overall dynamic range of such receiver may be equivalent to the dynamic range of a conventional radar receiver with automatic gain control.

Abstract: A microwave power combiner is shown to consist of a plurality of coaxial diode oscillators disposed on the periphery of a circularly cylindrical cavity operating in the TM.sub.020 mode, such cavity containing mode suppressor means to prevent any mode other than the TM.sub.020 from operating.

Abstract: An amplifier using a plurality of solid state diodes as the active elements is shown to comprise a plurality of amplifier channels fed, through a first radial line, by signals to be amplified and connected, through a second radial line, to a load.

Abstract: Circuitry for compensating for the effects of changes in ambient temperature on an automatic gain control arrangement in a missile-borne receiver is shown to include an operational amplifier responsive only to the level of the output signal from an automatic gain detector and amplifier, such end being effected by using temperature sensitive elements in the input and feedback circuits of the operational amplifier.

Abstract: Various embodiments of optical apparatus incorporating a foraminous plate to define a field of view are disclosed. In a first embodiment, the foramina in a foraminous plate are cylindrical with the field of view defined by the ratio of the diameter of each foramen to the thickness of the foraminous plate. The presence, or absence, of a target within the field of view is determined by the electrical signal out of a photodetector actuated by light passing through the foramina. In particular, embodiments illustrating the use of the disclosed optical apparatus as a sensor in a guided missile, the foraminous plate and photodetector are movably mounted in such a missile to allow either bearing or range of a target to be determined.

Abstract: A method of operating a continuous wave radar to derive range information as well as Doppler information is described. The transmitted signal is frequency modulated at a low modulation frequency and peak deviation so that range ambiguities are effectively avoided and echo signals may be processed at a relatively low intermediate frequency, thereby allowing echo signals from clutter to be more effectively rejected and echo signals from a moving target to be correlated.

Abstract: An improved solid state transmitter (and elements therefor) adapted particularly well to pulsed operation at radio frequencies is disclosed. Such transmitter includes the combination of: A crystal-controlled oscillator producing a continuous wave output signal which, ultimately, determines the frequency of each transmitted pulse; a first oscillatory circuit, including a resonant cavity and at least one normally quiescent coaxial oscillator incorporating an IMPATT diode; a second oscillatory circuit, including a resonant cavity and a plurality of normally quiescent coaxial oscillators, each one of such oscillators incorporating an IMPATT diode; and an improved modulator for periodically actuating all of the IMPATT diodes in such a manner that a pulsed output of the first oscillatory circuit is produced which remains locked to the then existing continuous wave signal out of the crystal-controlled oscillator and the pulsed outputs of the coaxial oscillators in the second oscillatory circuit similarly are locked.

Abstract: A radar mapping technique employing a synthetic aperture radar in conjunction with a correlator for directing an object moving in mid air to a desired point on the ground, which point is determined by correlating direct and indirect return signals from the ground and through the moving object respectively.