Patent ID: 11959728
Assignee: APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 6:
7. A hypersonic missile system comprising:
a missile body comprising a nose cone;
a set of thrusters configured to provide thrust to propel the hypersonic missile system to hypersonic speeds;
a plurality of windows formed in at least a portion of the nose cone,
wherein the plurality of windows is configured to filter wavelengths of light providing filtered light to an interior of the nose cone;
a plurality of cameras disposed in the nose cone and configured to receive the filtered light,
wherein each camera of the plurality of cameras is configured to detect a different wavelength of light;
an optical subsystem disposed within the nose cone, the optical subsystem comprising:
a plurality of mirrors configured to reflect the filtered light,
wherein a first mirror of the plurality of mirrors is configured to direct the filtered light onto a second mirror of the plurality of mirrors and the second mirror is configured to direct the filtered light into at least one camera of the plurality of cameras; and
a aperture configured to filter thermal background radiation;

wherein the plurality of windows is disposed at least ten centimeters from a tip of the nose cone to reduce thermal effects and a number and an intensity of a plurality of shock waves at the plurality of windows generated by the hypersonic speeds; and
a control unit operable to adjust a real-time trajectory of the hypersonic missile system based on an image formed by the plurality of cameras created from the filtered light from the plurality of windows.