Patent ID: 11952114
Assignee: ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A deployable device being mountable on a carrier aircraft and configured to collect situation awareness data with respect to the carrier aircraft, the deployable device being designed and configured as an aerial vehicle comprising:
at least one recorder device, at least one data acquisition device, and a control unit;
the at least one recorder device being configured, while the deployable device is carried onboard the carrier aircraft to collect and store situation awareness data with respect to the carrier aircraft;
the deployable device configured to be ejected from the carrier aircraft, responsive to an ejection request;
wherein the deployable device is configured to be connected to a towing mechanism connected to the carrier aircraft and is configured upon ejection from the carrier aircraft, to be towed by the towing mechanism of the carrier aircraft;
wherein the control unit is configured to control flight of the deployable device after being ejected; and
wherein the deployable device is configured, while being towed to operate the at least one data acquisition device for collecting situation awareness data with respect to the carrier aircraft and the control unit is configured to maneuver the deployable device while being towed to enable the data acquisition device to collect the situation awareness data with respect to the carrier aircraft from a desired observation angle external to the carrier aircraft.