Patent ID: 6961007

Claim:
An aircraft weapon system for operation by a user location within a cockpit, the system comprising: (a) a weapon system including a missile launcher and a missile mounted to said missile launcher, said missile having a target seeker; (b) a cuing system including: (i) a helmet worn by the user, (ii) a helmet position measurement system for measuring a position of said helmet relative to at least part of the aircraft, and (iii) a first portion of a wireless communication link, said first portion including a wireless transmitter located within the cockpit for communicating cuing direction information derived at least in part from said position measurement system, said cuing system being operable by the user to generate: (i) a wireless cuing signal indicative of a cuing direction selected by the user, and (ii) a wireless target designation signal indicative of designation of a target in a current cuing direction; and (c) a weapon system controller operationally linked to said target seeker and said missile launcher, said weapon system controller including a second portion of said wireless communication link and being: (i) responsive to said wireless cuing direction signal to direct said seeker in a corresponding cuing direction, and (ii) responsive to said wireless target designation signal to release said seeker to track a target.