Boeing “High Speed” Cruise Missile Patent

[TinWing]

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/6d/dd/cc/f987a42f97d1c0/US20050211827A1.pdf

 

[sferrin]

Back when scissor-wings were going to be the next big thing.

 

[DWG]

It actually admits all the prior art around oblique wings in the patent, just 'we think we have a narrow enough use case we can convince a patent examiner who doesn't know aerospace that it might not be covered'.

 

[publiusr]

I’d kinda like to see a Falcon rocket or something in that get-up

 

[Justo Miranda]

That thing seems designed to fall on its own launch point.

https://en.topwar.ru/22790-samolet-ad-1-s-krylom-asimmetrichno-izmenyaemoy-strelovidnosti-nozhnicy.html

 

[Byeman]

I’d kinda like to see a Falcon rocket or something in that get-up

Why? It only should need a small SRM like the Tomahawk.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Based on a few hints in the patent, I suspect that this was aimed primarily at the USN and USMC.