Abstract: A method of assemblying an antenna having an interlocking support structure with interlocking nodes, and a meshed radiation mirror includes positioning the support structure in a horizontal position, placing the mirror over the horizontally positioned support structure, and pushing glue through the meshes of the mirror to adhere the meshes to adjacent edges of the interlocking support structure. A second embodiment positions a mold in a horizontal position, the mold having a surface form corresponding to a predetermined form of the antenna mirror. Then, the mirror is positioned on the mold surface form. Glue is placed on the edges of the support structure, and the support structure is then deposited on the mirror with the glued edges contacting the mirror. To assemble the support structure, molds are placed around each and every interlocking node. Glue is then forced into the mold to secure the interlocking node.

Abstract: Ultra-high frequency antenna comprising a mirror constituted by a casing, whereof one face is metallized, and a support constituted by a metallic lattice, with connecting members fixing the mirror to its support. As the expansion coefficients of the mirror and the support differ, to prevent deformation of the latter, a connecting member located at the reference point which, for a revolution structure coincides with the apex, is rigid in all directions, whereas the other connecting members are semi-rigid, ensuring a certain flexibility in the expansion direction of the considered fixing points.Application to the antennas of radar, telecommunications and space telecommunications systems.

Abstract: A frame open on one side, including two parallel missile-supporting shelves interconnected on the opposite side, is mounted on a transport vehicle so as to be swingable about three mutually orthogonal axes for alignment of these shelves with respective ramps on a launching vehicle upon a docking of the two vehicles. The missiles are fastened to their shelves by pivoted clamps transferring them to the adjoining ramp faces by swinging about axes parallel to the longitudinal shelf and ramp edges. Locking elements on the ramp faces engage the missiles, or their containers, whereupon they are released from the clamps of the supporting frame.