Patent ID: 7040570

Claim:
A Weather-Agile Automatic Target Recognition System for performing a rapid target update in diverse weather conditions, said system comprising: a primary multi-spectral target sensing means for sensing targets in diverse climatic conditions and generating target signature corresponding to said sensed target; a plurality of weapons; a plurality of secondary multi-spectral target sensing means, one of said secondary sensing means being mounted on one of said weapons and enabling said weapon to seek the sensed target in any weather condition, said primary and secondary sensing means cooperating with each other to destroy selected targets; and a control center having therein pre-existing target, weaponry and environmental databases, said center positioned to communicate with said primary and secondary multi-spectral target sensing means, said center receiving said target signature from said primary sensing means and processing said signature using said pre-existing databases prior to transmitting said processed signature to said secondary sensing means residing on a weapon selected as having the greatest potential to accomplish a successful destruction of the sensed target.