The safety system prevents the target-carrier aircraft from being fired upon by the attacking aircraft during aerial target practice. The attacking aircraft receives an arming signal from the target-carrier aircraft and this signal is interrupted whenever the target-carrier aircraft receives a radar signal, such as would occur should the attacking aircraft fire control system lock onto the targetcarrier aircraft. This system inherently fails safe since component failure in the transmitter of the target-carrier aircraft or the receiver of the attack aircraft sufficient to destroy the receiver output disarms the fire control system and since component failure in the radar receiver of the target-carrier aircraft blocks the locally generated test signal and thus deenergize the keying relay of the transmitter.
Target-Carrier Aircraft Protective System
1965
1 pages
Report
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English
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