Prime Computer Improves Screen Formatting
Information Display · 1981
Fiber Optic linl< Tested for Missile GuidanceA fiber optics communications system that will enable a safely concealed gunner to remotely direct a guided missile to a battlefield target is under development for the U.S. Army by Hughes Aircraft Company, Canoga Park, CA.In the advanced development program called Integrated Fiber-Optic Communications Link (IFOCL), Hughes, the prime contractor, and its principal subcontractor, ITI Electro-Optical Products Division, are working on techniques that would enable a fine fiber-optic thread to be used to communicate between a launcher and a missile in flight.Program officials say the system has the potential to provide the basis for a low-cost "lock-on-after-launch" antiarmor missile with extended range and immunity to enemy countermeasurers.The concept calls for the missile with an imaging seeker in its nose to be fired in the direction of a known enemy