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An apparatus for encapsulating a warhead or bomb for the purpose of reducing the weapon's radar cross-section, including a hollow jacket and a hollow tail section. The warhead is inserted into the specially-shaped jacket and into at least part of the tail section. The jacket is secured to the warhea

An apparatus for encapsulating a warhead or bomb for the purpose of reducing the weapon's radar cross-section, including a hollow jacket and a hollow tail section. The warhead is inserted into the specially-shaped jacket and into at least part of the tail section. The jacket is secured to the warhead by lugs and the tail section is secured to the jacket or to the warhead. The jacket has two pointed seams on opposite sides of a vertical plane passing through the warhead pointing outward from the vertical plane and which extend along the length of the jacket. The front of the tail section has a serrated edge which overlaps the rear end of the jacket. The tail section has horizontal fins and downward and outward extending fins. The lugs allow the apparatus to be releaseably attached to the bottom the fuselage or the bottom of a wing pylon of a military aircraft.

대표청구항 ▼

[ I claim:] [1.] An apparatus for use for minimizing the reflection of radar energy back to a source from a bomb to be carried by an aircraft in an external position, and wherein said bomb comprises a warhead having a front end, a rear end, and a surrounding wall extending between said front and rea

[ I claim:] [1.] An apparatus for use for minimizing the reflection of radar energy back to a source from a bomb to be carried by an aircraft in an external position, and wherein said bomb comprises a warhead having a front end, a rear end, and a surrounding wall extending between said front and rear ends and which is generally round in cross section, said surrounding wall having an upper portion, a lower portion, and two opposite side portions, said apparatus comprising:a jacket having front and rear ends with a surrounding wall having an upper portion, a lower portion, two opposite side portions, and a cavity extending into said jacket at least from said rear end of said jacket to a position near said front end of said jacket,said warhead being adapted to located in said cavity at a given position such that said front end of said warhead is near said front end of said jacket, said rear end of said warhead is near said rear end of said jacket and said upper and lower portions of said warhead are near said upper and lower portions of said jacket respectively,means for securing said jacket to said warhead when said warhead is located in said cavity in said given position,a tail section adapted to be secured to said rear end of said jacket,said jacket being formed such that a main plane extending between said upper and lower portions of said jacket and between said front and rear ends of said jacket, bisects said jacket into two sections,said surrounding wall of said jacket having two pointed seams on opposite sides of said main plane pointing outward from said main plane and which extend along the length of said jacket between said front and rear ends of said jacket,in each of a plurality of planes between said front and rear ends of said jacket and transverse to said main plane, said jacket has a maximum height and maximum width,in each of said plurality of planes, said two seams define the maximum width of said jacket.