Apparatus for guiding a missile

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Therefore, with the foregoing in mind it is a primary object of the present invention to provide a new and improved construction of an apparatus for guiding a missile by means of an electromagnetic guide beam and which apparatus is of comparatively simple but very effective construction.
It is a further significant object of the present invention to provide a new and improved construction of an apparatus for guiding a missile by means of an electromagnetic guide beam and which apparatus, although of comparatively simple construction, offers the smallest possible risk that the missile inadvertently departs from its guide beam and thus no longer becomes guideable.
Now in order to implement these and still further objects of the present invention, which will become more readily apparent as the description proceeds, the apparatus of the present development is manifested by the features that, means for step-by-step or incremental deflection of the guide beam and means for encoding the guide beam are mutually coupled by means of a computer in order to generate an individual code for each field sector of a scanning field.
Preferably there is generated a checkerboard-type scanning field by the means for deflecting the guide beam and each field sector is assigned an individual code by the means for encoding the guide beam.
Instead of a checkerboard-type scanning field, there can also be generated a scanning field defined by a circularly or spirally shaped or any other appropriately shaped scanning pattern.