Hans Ingrid Maurer Deceased25701 Lake Wilderness Country Club Dr, Maple Valley, WA 98038

4732349, Mar 22, 1988

Oct 8, 1986

6/916595

Hans A. Maurer - Tarzana CA

Hughes Aircraft Company - Los Angeles CA

F41G 724

244 313

A guidance apparatus (10) for guiding a missile (18) to a target (20) by a beam (16) is disclosed. The apparatus (10) includes a device (12) for projecting the beam (16), the orientation of which controls the flight path of the missile (18). The missile (18) includes a circuit for generating a signal when the missile (18) is in a predetermined spatial relationship (e. g. , the center coded portion) with respect to said beam (16). When such signal is generated, the angular position of the missile with respect to the target is determined. This positioned relationship is then provided to ground based circuitry (56, 58 and 60) which forms a part of apparatus (10) and which adjusts the orientation of the beam (16) to reduce the angular separation of missile and target.