Patents Assigned to Interstate Electronics Corporation, A Subsidiary of L-3 Communications Corporation
  • Mortar round glide kit
    Patent number: 8237096
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods provide a kit for converting a conventional mortar round into a glide bomb. Mortar rounds are readily available to combat personnel and are small and light enough to be carried by relatively small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) such as the RQ-7 Shadow. Advantageously, the kit provides both guidance and relatively good standoff range for the UAV such that the kit-equipped mortar round can be dropped a safe distance away from the intended target so that the UAV is not easily observed near the intended target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Interstate Electronics Corporation, A Subsidiary of L-3 Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Steven B. Alexander, Richard Redhead