In Brief: Lockheed Martin granted patent for re-entry vehicle steering system

PATENTED: Lockheed Martin Corp. has been granted a patent for a three-axis flap control system that could "revolutionize" the steering of rocket-launched, hypersonic and supersonic re-entry vehicles, the company said June 3. Such vehicles could be used to defeat hard and deeply buried targets, the...

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