Patent ID: 7493843
Filing Date: 2009-02-24
Classification: B62D,F41H,F42B

Abstract:
1. A device, comprising: a body adapted for independent travel through air with aid of a separate launch device to a landing site a distance from a target, the body being divided into cylindrical, coaxial segments, which are connected to each other; a payload arranged in the body and operative to trigger open or concealed mines and explosive charges on or in land; a computer arranged in the body for controlling sequences of operations and navigation; a programming module and a navigation system arranged in the body and electrically connected to the computer; and an integrated land drive system installed on or formed by the body, and configured to take the body holding the payload to the target by mechanically self crawling on the surface of the ground immediately after the body has landed at the landing site, the drive system including a first drive motor for a front segment and a second drive motor for a rear segment, the drive motors being provided in a middle segment, wherein helical flights are mounted on the front and rear segments, the flights on the front segment and the rear segment having a common orientation and a common pitch, wherein a flight is mounted on the middle segment and has an opposite orientation but a common pitch as the flights on the front and rear segments, the flight of the middle segment being substantially twice a length of one of the other flights.