Patent ID: 7953524
Filing Date: 2011-05-31
Classification: F41G,G01S

Abstract:
1. A method of navigating a mobile platform, comprising: transmitting a radar signal from a friendly asset to the mobile platform, the mobile platform being an aerial platform; receiving, at the friendly asset, a radar return of the radar signal; comparing, by the friendly asset, a radar signature of the radar return against a plurality of pre-determined aerial platform radar signatures; identifying, via the friendly asset, the mobile platform based upon said comparing of the received radar return against the pre-determined radar signatures; determining, via the friendly asset, a position of the mobile platform based upon the radar return of the radar signal; transmitting a platform position signal from the friendly asset to the mobile platform, wherein the platform position signal includes the friendly asset-determined position of the mobile platform; transmitting a second radar signal from the friendly asset to a mobile target, the mobile target being positioned away from the mobile platform and the friendly asset; receiving a radar return of the second radar signal; determining, via the friendly asset, a position of the mobile target based upon the radar return of the second radar signal; transmitting a mobile target position signal from the friendly asset to the mobile platform, the mobile target position signal providing to the mobile platform the friendly asset-determined position of the mobile target; and navigating the mobile platform to the mobile target based upon the platform position signal and the mobile target position signal, wherein the friendly asset is positioned away from the mobile platform.