The present invention relates to the control of weapons, particularly weapons which are controlled via a communications link, possibly at some distance from the weapon's location. The invention is to an apparatus comprising safety-critical and non-safety-critical functional parts wherein at least one of a plurality of safety-critical functional parts is only connected to at least one other of the plurality of safety-critical functional parts.

The present disclosure provides an air combat maneuvering method based on parallel self-play, including the steps of constructing a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) maneuver model, constructing a red-and-blue motion situation acquiring model to describe a relative combat situation of red and blue sides, constructing state spaces and action spaces of both red and blue sides and a reward function according to a Markov process, followed by constructing a maneuvering decision-making model structure based on a soft actor-critic (SAC) algorithm, training the SAC algorithm by performing air combat confrontations to realize parallel self-play, and finally testing a trained network, displaying combat trajectories and calculating a combat success rate. The level of confrontations can be effectively enhanced and the combat success rate of the decision-making model can be increased.

The target marking device (1) comprises a drone (2) which is provided with at least one transmitter (4), the transmitter (4) comprising an activation element (10) for activating it so that it transmits at a given time a signal (S) which represents a position information item, the transmitter (4) being configured to transmit at least one of the following signals: an infrared signal, a light signal, a sound signal, a signal generated by a chemical substance, the target marking device (1) being part of a target tracking system (6) and/or a target processing system which is provided with movable machinery (7).

A device and a method for blasting avalanches. The device comprises a drone, and an explosive charge attached to the drone in a freely suspended manner by means of a cord. An ignition mechanism is provided for igniting the explosive charge. The ignition mechanism can be triggered by remote control or automatically. Any desired destinations can be approached using this device in order to trigger avalanches. In this manner, the explosive charge can be positioned above the snow cover to be blasted.

The present invention relates to an armed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), an armed UAV control system, and methods of use thereof. In one form, the armed UAV includes: an elongate body, a pair opposed side rotor arm assemblies extending from the sides of the body, a tail rotor arm assembly extending from a rear end of the body, a weapons system including at least one firearm associated with the body, and a flight and targeting controller operatively associated with the side rotor arm assemblies and the tail rotor arm assembly. The controller configured to: determine at least a pitch angle and yaw angle required to strike a target with the weapons system, based on target information received; and selectively control operation of each rotor arm assembly for aiming the weapons system, based on at least the pitch angle and the yaw angle determined.

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone executes a neural network to assist with detecting and responding to attacks. The neural network may monitor, in real time, the data stream from a plurality of onboard sensors during navigation and may communicate with a high-altitude pseudosatellite (HAPS) platform. For example, if the neural network detects a cyber-attack but determines that it does not interfere with external communications, it may shift navigation control of the drone to the HAPS.

An anti-aircraft system is described and includes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising a body; a wing connected to the body; and propulsion systems associated with the wing, wherein the propulsion systems comprise pylons releasably connected to opposite ends of the wing such that the propulsion systems may be selectively released from the wing during flight of the UAV.

The neutralisation system (1) comprises a drone (2) configured to be able to fly close to a target and transmit at least position information concerning the position of the target, the neutralisation system (1) also comprising at least one missile (6) capable of being guided towards the target in order to neutralise it and at least one control station (8), the control station (8) comprising a receiving unit (9B) capable of receiving at least the position information transmitted by the drone (2) and a display unit (10A) capable of displaying this information to an operator, the missile (6) being configured to be able to be guided towards the target by means of the position information received by the control station (8).

The present invention relates to threat protection, in particular a system and method providing active protection using at least one UAV, e.g., drone, to neutralize an incoming aerial or ground threat or diminish or prevent damage caused, directly or indirectly, from the incoming threat.

A processor-implemented method includes receiving, at a processor, from a transceiver and without human intervention, location data associated with a target. The processor receives, from the transceiver, product data for a resupply request referencing the target, the product data including at least one of a product type or a product quantity. The processor generates, without human intervention, unmanned autonomous vehicle (UAV) mission data based on the location data and the product data, the UAV mission data including a representation of at least one UAV and flight path data for the at least one UAV. The UAV mission data is caused to transmit to at least one UAV controller to cause the at least one UAV controller to initiate navigation of the at least one UAV according to the UAV mission data.