Patent ID: 8245624

Claim:
A Decoupled Elevation, Automatic Drift Correction (DEADCo) Multiple Weapon System for concurrently engaging line-of-sight and deflection weapons against a target, said system comprising: a turret structure mountable to a vehicle and rotatable in yaw on a turret training drive; a first cradle mountable to said turret structure, said first cradle having a fire control system, and a first elevation drive rotatable in pitch on which to pivotably mount the line-of-sight weapon, said fire control system relaying pointer commands to said first elevation drive; and a second cradle mountable to said turret structure, said second cradle having a drift correction drive rotatable in yaw and a second elevation drive rotatable in pitch, said fire control system relaying said pointer commands to said drift correction and second elevation drives that compensate for drift, wherein the deflection weapon couples to said drift correction and second elevation drives for independent rotations in pitch and yaw.