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A system for guiding a steerable object, such as a torpedo, from a launch site, such as a submarine, to a contact or target. The system generates two distinct sets of guidance commands. One set is based upon a guidance command model that is selected to be the optimal model for a given tactical situa

A system for guiding a steerable object, such as a torpedo, from a launch site, such as a submarine, to a contact or target. The system generates two distinct sets of guidance commands. One set is based upon a guidance command model that is selected to be the optimal model for a given tactical situation; the other, for a situation in which a communications path between the launch site and steerable object fails. At the steerable object, an integrity detector determines the integrity of the communications path. A command receptor and storage unit receives the two sets of signals corresponding to the two sets of selected commands. The one set is passed along so long as the communications path has integrity. Otherwise the system defaults and pursues guidance according to the second set of commands.

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A system located at a launching vehicle for controlling the trajectory of a steerable object from the launching vehicle to a contact wherein the system issues commands to the steerable object over a communications path, said system comprising: generating means at the launching vehicle for producing

A system located at a launching vehicle for controlling the trajectory of a steerable object from the launching vehicle to a contact wherein the system issues commands to the steerable object over a communications path, said system comprising: generating means at the launching vehicle for producing first and second independent guidance commands; means for transferring the first and second guidance commands onto the communications path; guidance means at the steerable object for controlling the trajectory of the steerable object; storage means at the steerable object for receiving the first and second guidance commands from the communications path; detector means at the steerable object for monitoring the integrity of the communications path; and means at the steerable object for selecting, on a mutually exclusive basis, one of the first and second guidance commands for transfer to said guidance means as a selected command in response to the detected integrity of the communications path.