Missile fire-control system and method

DETAILED DESCRIPTION A successful defense of a country depends preponderantly upon an efficient defense against enemy tanks.
It is therefore very valuable to the defense of a country to be able to accurately combat tanks, and in particular large tank units, while they are still at a considerably distance from and before their entry into the direct combat zone.
A weapon system having that capacity is not presently available, and combat using directly aimed or guided missiles is presently possible only at relatively short range within which the enemy tanks can return the fire.
At a greater range, low angle artillery fire can be used but such artillery fire has relatively low efficiency.
Airborne launching bases, for example, planes and helicopters, can be employed but such airborne launching bases are expensive and easily repulsed by anti-aircraft.
The primary purpose of the present invention is to provide a new and useful fire-control system and method having notable utility in combatting, for example but not exclusively, tanks and tank units, and providing for accurately aiming and directing missiles at a relatively long range against single targets, the relatively long range available with the present invention constituting a multiple of the maximum range possible with conventional similarly accurate weapon systems and methods and makes it possible to undertake an optimum early and efficient attack against enemy forces with a minimum of risk to material and personnel.
The present invention permits initiating combat with missiles against movable targets which are not visually observable from the missile launching site and using projectiles which are fired to the target area with directable launching devices preferably by firing the projectiles into a predetermined indirect ballistic trajectory.
Surface targets against which the fire-control system and method of the present invention are useful include movable ground targets, such as tanks and rocket-launching sites, stationary ground targets, and surface targets at sea, etc