| 摘要 |
Disclosed herein is an expendable flight kit attachable to a sonobuoy for making use of said sonobuoy as a central structural load-bearing component of a flying assembly, the kit comprising rigid aerodynamic surfaces to provide lift and stability; a propulsion system; a plurality of control surfaces; a plurality of control surface actuators operable for moving the control surfaces in response to control signals; a flight control system, the fight control system including a GPS receiver and attitude and airspeed sensors, the flight control system being operable for receiving mission parameters including sonobuoy deployment co-ordinates, the flight control system being operable for autonomously navigating and steering the vehicle in flight using information from the GPS receiver and the attitude and airspeed sensors, the fight control system being operable for sending control signals to control the control surface actuators, the flying assembly operable to be launched from a ship; the flight control system operable for separating the sonobuoy from the flight kit while in flight at an acceptable proximity to a pre-designated set of co-ordinates, wherein after separation of the sonobuoy from the flight kit, both the sonobuoy and the flight kit fall into the water.
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