Accession Number:

ADD012643

Title:

AIRBOC (Air Rapid Bloom Offboard Chaff) Chaff Deployment System.

Descriptive Note:

Patent,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Humphries,Waymon
• Bryant,John
• Eklund,Richard C.
• Hayes,Donald C.
• Ferko,Peter

Report Date:

1986-12-30

Pagination or Media Count:

8.0

Abstract:

An AIRBOC chaff deployment apparatus comprises a canister with a wind flap attached externally to the canister and connected to a drogue chute that is housed inside the canister. The drogue chute is situated atop a main chute that is atop a release mechanism, which is atop a fuze and that is atop a chaft payload, all of which is housed inside the canister. When the AIRBOC is dropped from a plane, the wind flap extends, pulling out the drogue chute. The drogue chute in turn activates the release mechanism which frees the drogue chute to pull out the main chute to which the drogue chute is connected. The deployment of the main chute causes a force greater than 40 lbs to be applied to the release mechanism, resulting in the chaff payload being released from the canister and the fuze being activated, consequently detonating the released chaff payload.

Descriptors:

• *PATENTS
• *CHAFF DISPENSERS
• AIR LAUNCHED
• CANISTERS
• PARACHUTES
• DETONATORS

Subject Categories:

• Radar Countermeasures

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE