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A system for multistage aerial dispersion of materials or substances in minute form to provide an aerial array of interspaced clouds or cloud-like patterns of such materials or substances. Although the materials or substances may be in the nature of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and the like,

A system for multistage aerial dispersion of materials or substances in minute form to provide an aerial array of interspaced clouds or cloud-like patterns of such materials or substances. Although the materials or substances may be in the nature of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and the like, suitable for domestic applications, there is basically disclosed a system for military applications. In this latter regard, rapid multipositional aerial dispersion of decoy material, such as thin metallic strips, chaff, or the like, to deceive or confuse enemy radar is achieved by packaging the decoy material in a carrier missile structured to carry a plurality of separate frangible canisters or modules respectively containing the decoy material in the form of a myriad of such metallic strips or chaff. The carrier missile while airborne is adapted to explosively shatter the canisters or modules in predetermined, timed sequence and thereby widely scatter their contents of metallic strips, or chaff, as a multitude of discrete dipolar elements to form a series of separate interspaced clouds or cloud-like regions of decoy material with each possessing the electronic or radar tracking characteristics simulating an airborne object, such as a helicopter or the like, desired to be protected from detection. Thus, the series of clouds or regions of decoy material conceal the actual locational position of the airborne object desired to be protected by producing multiple confusing tracking signals to devices relying upon such signals for detection and/or aiming purposes and thereby affording delay time to permit the real, or actual, airborne target to advance out of range of accurate detection and/or enemy weaponfire.

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A rocket deception system for aerial dissemination of a plurality of separate batches of at least one prepackaged material in highly dispersed condition and for producing a plurality of separate chaff clouds each comprised of material for protecting airborne objects from radar tracking devices, said

A rocket deception system for aerial dissemination of a plurality of separate batches of at least one prepackaged material in highly dispersed condition and for producing a plurality of separate chaff clouds each comprised of material for protecting airborne objects from radar tracking devices, said system comprising: a rocket engine for propelling said rocket system; a carrier fixedly attached to said rocket engine having an open framework structure extending between oppositely disposed forward and aft end members; a succession of longitudinally disposed frangible canisters carried in said open framework between said forward and aft end members in which to respectively package a selected substance or material which includes, a tubular inner casing defining an inner chamber, an outer casing surrounding said inner casing, said outer casing and said inner casing cooperating to define an outer chamber therebetween within which to package a selected material; means for protectively shielding each of said canisters from explosive forces generated during explosive shattering of another canister, which includes; a plurality of explosion-resistant partitions secured on said carrier and operatively deployed between and separating successive canisters from one another; and means for explosively shattering said canisters in periodic sequence and forcefully propelling the material packaged therein radially outward from said carrier and disseminating the material in highly dispersed condition to form a plurality of separately spaced apart clouds.