Patent ID: 8291827
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: F42B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A guided rocket, comprising: an unguided rocket including a warhead having an inner thread form and a fuze having an outer thread form configured to mate with the warhead's inner thread form to form a first threaded interface, said fuze having a lip forward of the outer thread form and one or more engagement surfaces forward of the lip and outer thread form; a guidance system including an aft mounting feature and one or more canards; and; an adapter comprising an inner adapter with an inner surface configured to match the exterior profile of the warhead, a forward end having front and back surfaces, and an aft outer thread form and an outer adapter with an inner thread form, said fuze lip contacting the front surface of the inner adapter's forward end such that the back surface contacts the warhead to capture the inner adapter between the fuze lip and the warhead aft of the engagement surfaces so that the inner adapter's inner surface makes conformal contact with the exterior profile of the warhead to preload the fuze, said outer adapter's inner thread form threaded on the inner adapter's outer thread form at a second threaded interface, said outer adapter comprising an external mounting feature forward of said fuze to which the guidance system's aft mounting feature is attached.