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Apparatus and method for cutting and dispensing of adversarial interaction countermeasures, as for example chaff dipole elements for the self-protection of aerial vehicles against radar-guided missiles, providing substantially instantaneous in-flight cutting and dispensing of chaff dipole elements i

Apparatus and method for cutting and dispensing of adversarial interaction countermeasures, as for example chaff dipole elements for the self-protection of aerial vehicles against radar-guided missiles, providing substantially instantaneous in-flight cutting and dispensing of chaff dipole elements into the airstream along the flight path of aircraft, helicopters, and other aerial vehicles. The device comprises a drive motor assembly having a flywheel providing a motor inertia enabling the motor to maintain a substantially constant rotational speed when a load is applied for cutting of the material to be dispensed. Countermeasure articles that may be advantageously be cut and dispensed into an adversarial interaction area by the means and method of the invention include dipole elements which are interactive with radiation of varying character, e.g., infrared, microwave, ultraviolet, millimeter wave, etc., as well as less-than-lethal (LTL) adversarial interaction countermeasures.

대표청구항 ▼

[ What is claimed is:] [3.] A roving filament cutting and dispensing device comprising opposed platen and cutter rollers, in which the cutter roller has multiple transversely discrete surface areas along an axial extent of its surface, of differing bladed character, and means for selectively guiding

[ What is claimed is:] [3.] A roving filament cutting and dispensing device comprising opposed platen and cutter rollers, in which the cutter roller has multiple transversely discrete surface areas along an axial extent of its surface, of differing bladed character, and means for selectively guiding roving filament to a selected one or ones of the multiple transverse discrete surface areas for cutting thereon, to produce a cut filament for dispensing.