Synthetic gunnery trainer system

Claim 1

A TANK GUNNERY TRAINING SCORING SYSTEM COMPRISING, HIT INDICATING MEANS FOR GENERATING A DIRECTIONAL LIGHT BEAM, MEANS FOR REFLECTING SAID DIRECTIONAL LIGHT BEAM ALONG ITS INCIDENT AXIS, SAID REFLECTING MEANS BEING MOUNTED ON A REMOTE TARGET TANK, MEANS FOR DETECTING REFLECTED LIGHT BEAMS, SAID LIGHT BEAMS DETECTING MEANS BEING MOUNTED ADJACENT TO SAID LIGHT GENERATING MEANS, MEANS FOR GENERATING ELECTRICAL PULSE SIGNALS, SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS BEING OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID LIGHT DETECTION MEANS BY SAID REFLECTED LIGHT WHEREBY SAID REFLECTED LIGHT SIGNALS ACTUATE SAID PULSE SIGNAL GENERATING MEANS COMPRISING, TIMING MEANS, AND COMPARATOR MEANS, SAID COMPARTOR MEANS BEING OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID TIMING MEANS AND TO SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS WHEREBY THE TIME OF TRAVEL OF SAID LIGHT SIGNAL IS COMPARED TO A PRESET STANDARD VOLTAGE, INDICATOR MEANS, SAID INDICATOR MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID COMPARATOR MEANS FOR INDICATION OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SAID PRESET STANDARD VOLTAGE AND SAID TIME OF TRAVEL OF SAID LIGHT BEAM, MEANS FOR GENERATING CONTINUOUS-WAVE INVISIBLE LIGHT FREQUENCIES, SAID INVISIBLE LIGHT FREQUENCY MEANS BEING LOCATED ON SAID REMOTE TARGET TANK ADJACENT TO SAID REMOTE REFLECTOR, INVISIBLE LIGHT DETECTION MEANS SAID DETECTION MEANS BEING LOCATED ADJACENT TO SAID LIGHT GENERATING MEANS AND OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID INVISIBLE LIGHT FREQUENCIES GENERATING MEANS, RADIO TRANSMITTER AND ANTENNA MEANS, SAID RADIO TRANSMITTER AND ANTENNA MEANS BEING OPERATIVELY CONNECTED SAID INVISIBLE LIGHT DETECTION MEANS WHEREBY SAID TRANSMITTER GENERATED IS SIGNAL IN ACCORDANCE WITH SIGNALS RECEIVED BY SAID INVISIBLE LIGHT DETECTION MEANS, RADIO RECEIVER MEANS, PHOTOCELL DETECTION MEANS AND PHASE-SENSITIVE DETECTOR MEANS, SAID RECEIVER MEANS AND PHOTOCELL DETECTION MEANS BEING REMOTELY LOCATED ON SAID REMOTE TARGET TANK AND OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID PHASE-SENSITIVE DETECTOR MEANS, SAID PHOTOCELL DETECTION MEANS PRODUCING ELECTRICAL SIGNALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAID INVISIBLE WAVE SIGNAL GENERATING MEANS, SAID RADIO RECEIVER MEANS PRODUCING SIGNALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH SIAGNALS RECEIVED FROM SAID REMOTE RADIO TRANSMITTER MEANS, SAID PHASE-SENSITIVE DETECTOR MEANS COMPARING SAID SIGNALS FROM SAID RADIO RECEIVER MEANS AND PHOTOCELL MEANS AND PROVIDING OUTPUT SIGNALS UPON PHASE COINCIDENCE FOR OPERATION OF SAID HIT INDICATORS.