LST’s founding patent “Stacked Projectile Launcher System”
...provides novel means whereby 'projectiles' of any shape and size can be stacked in a 'box' and launched from it. Once all projectiles are launched, only the box remains.
Projectiles may include:
- Fixed-wing plane drones, i.e. wings are not required to be retractable. For example a 2m long, 2m wingspan, fixed-wing plane drone. Or a 40cm long, 50cm wingspan, fixed-wing plane drone. Plane drones of any size can be launched with LST technology.
- Quad-copter and other helicopter drones. Fans/rotors are not required to be retractable.
- Less lethal projectiles/payloads. (Sponge 'rounds'/rubber balls/capsicum/flash-bang/strobe-siren etc.)
- Taser.
- Cubesats and other satellites, even space station modules.
- Bombs, rockets and missiles.
- 40mm grenades/mortars etc.
- Life-rafts, buoys or depth charges.
- Mining and surveying payloads.
- Seeds, water or fire retardant chemicals.
- Fireworks and entertainment drones.
- Bowling balls, frying pans or toasters!
LST launcher systems are:
- Simple.
- Lightweight.
- Inexpensive.
- Largely made of ‘plastic.’
- Highly configurable.
- Inherently reloadable.
- Solid-state, and have no moving parts.
- Compact, and have a very high payload-to-weight ratio.
- Modular.
- Retrofittable.
- Not requisite of special sealing or inductive ignition.
- Suited to remote-control, autonomy and AI, as well as the new age of mass over exquisite systems.
Key milestones:
- Provisional patent application lodged.
- Successful first prototype demonstration. Worked first time, and repeatedly.
- Type search conducted - Australian patent office. Key claims are novel and inventive etc.
- PCT patent application lodged. Patent pending.
- Second prototype build in progress.
- International Search Report (ISR) and Written Opinion (WO) issued by IP Australia. All 52 claims were found to satisfy the requirements for novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability. No objections were raised.