Patent ID: 8371535

Claim:
The method for releasing an unmanned missile from a carrier aircraft, the missile having an autonomous flight control device that acts on control devices of the missile, the method comprising: adjusting vertical rudders and elevators of the missile into a neutral position in which a respective rudder angle is 0°; separating electrical and mechanical connections between the missile and the carrier aircraft; detecting, via sensors of the missile, that the separating has occurred; activating the autonomous flight control device and automatically controlling the missile with the flight control device and the control devices based upon correction flight condition variables caused by a prevailing downwash between the missile and the carrier aircraft; and automatically controlling the missile with the flight control device and the control devices based on data stored in at least one storage device on the missile, wherein, in the activating of the flight control, the autonomous flight control of the missile is activated to start at a point in time that is no later than 100 ms after the start of a time meter at a point in time when the occurrence of separation is detected.