Patent ID: 9719757
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: B64D,F41H,G01S

Claim:
1. A laser-based visual disruption countermeasure network including a first helicopter and a second helicopter, comprising: a hostile fire indicator subsystem on-board the first helicopter to identify locations of stationary or moving ground-based threats to a second helicopter and to generate respective ground-projection zones around the identified locations indicative of possible error in the identified locations, a first eye-safe laser-based visual disruption subsystem on-board the second helicopter to generate and output a plurality of laser beams with intensities sufficient to interfere with and temporarily impair a human optical system, wherein the network is configured and operative to determine whether a first rectangular scan pattern and a second rectangular scan pattern maintained at the same time overlap, each of the first and second rectangular scan patterns being output by a respective one of the laser beams, and wherein said first and second rectangular scan patterns are each modified by increasing applied laser beam energy of the respective one of the laser beams from a first intensity to a intensity only for any overlapping portion of the first and second rectangular scan patterns.