Aeromobile Optical Telecommunications System

Claims

1. An aeromobile optical telecommunications system comprising a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (hereinafter referred to as UAVs) interconnected and also connected to a remote control station by atmospheric optical communication lines (hereinafter referred to as AOCLs), and also comprising a system for measuring the transit time of optical signals along the AOCLs, characterized in that there are at least two ground-based system points, and the receivers and transmitters of the said AOCLs are secured to the UAVs and to the ground-based points by means of a two-axis hinge and are provided with servo drives for controlled two-axis rotation and are equipped with rotation angle sensors connected to a system for calculating the current geometric configuration of the entire system, and the photoreceiver comprises several photocells located in the focal plane of the lens, forming a sensor for the displacement of the image projected by the lens, located at another position in the system, the transmitter,and connected to the automatic stabilization unit of the light spot position by acting on the specified servo drives of the two-axis rotation of the transmitter.

2. An aeromobile system according to paragraph 1, characterized in that on board each UAV there are at least two non-collinear optical communication lines with another UAV or with a ground base.

3. An airborne system according to paragraph 2, characterized in that it contains three optical communication units located under a transparent thin-walled fairing in the nose section of the fuselage with an offset relative to the longitudinal axis of the fuselage in mutually spaced directions.

4. An aeromobile system according to paragraph 3, characterized in that a video camera is located on the centerline of the front fairing.

5. An airborne system according to paragraph 3, characterized in that it also contains three optical communication units located under a transparent, pointed fuselage fairing offset relative to the longitudinal axis of the fuselage in mutually spaced directions.

6. An airmobile system according to paragraph 1, characterized in that the system uses a UAV that is a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (hereinafter VTOL), controlled in pitch and heading by means of a swashplate, with which the propeller of the aircraft, located in the nose of the fuselage, is equipped.

7. An aeromobile system according to paragraph 6, characterized in that a piston internal combustion engine operating on a four-stroke isobaric cycle is used to drive the VTOL propeller, and the transparent tail fairing of the fuselage is used as a receiver of air pumped by the working piston of the isobaric engine in compression strokes.

8. An airmobile system according to paragraph 6, characterized in that the wing of the said VTOL aircraft contains four consoles distributed around the longitudinal axis of the fuselage, the ends of which are connected to each other by a casing that prevents the propeller from touching the ground during landing and overturning and ensures the possibility of repeated takeoff.