SCV Quality Solutions LLC could be the first aspiring missile defense contractor in the business to also boast a line of tennis shoe products and accessories. (The FeetSoCool insole, anyone? Just $19.95+shipping.)
But the Madison, Alabama-based retailer is apparently not content with selling merely shoe products, handy clothes hangers and flag pole gadgets.
SCV apparently wants to help the US military thwart everything from incoming mortar rounds to intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The company's owner -- Samuel C. Vickroy (initials: SCV) -- was awarded a patent earlier this week for a "system and method for intercepting a projectile".
Vickroy's concept is ... er, unusual. Rather than fire a missile or laser to destroy the incoming round, Vickroy's design wraps the incoming warhead in a exospheric-opening blanket and parachute the whole package gracefully to the ground.
But don't rely on my humble words to describe it. Check out the pictures!
Thanks for our comments on my system called HIRCS High Impact Recovery Capable System
Non of the other systems to protect us from incoming projectiles will protect from collateral damage except Missile Defense. That system will be rendered usless in the exoatmospher. My HIRCS will render usless any of the other systems that aquire and engage the theater threat. Patriot, THADD, and all the other systems have collateral damamge. What goes up must come down and enless it is in the expatmosphere or over the ocean it will have collateral damage. HIRCS is completely defensive.
The shoes and the other gagits are just the objects of a frustraded inventor that sees many ways to improve on things.
I am an avid tennis player and needed something to cool them in seconds without taking the shoes off
Thanks Again
Sam
I have enjoyed reading the comments about my system of intercepting an incoming projectile. I especially enjoy the humorous ones because we have to not take ourselves so seriously. My favorite is the big diaper analogy.
The critical ones I am sure come form people who’s accomplishments are few and an environment of stifling imagination and dreams. What a tormented life they must lead and a boring home to live in. Constricting imagination and dreams. I really do feel sorry for them. Meandering aimlessly through life. Never with a productive thought. Just taking up space and giving out carbon dioxide. Always a part of the problem and never part of the solution.
I was always encouraged to develop imagination and dreams because that is what the moral fabric of this great country we call the USA. I encourage anyone I come in contact with to broaden their horizons.
This patent was born out of the desire to protect our troops in harms way. They need something that they can use to defend against mortar attacks they experience on a daily basis. Children in Israel go to school and when the sirens sound from hundreds of rocket attacks everyday they have to go to shelters. This is no way for anyone on God's earth to live. Imagine you children having to endure that everyday but there I go using that imagine word.
As I mention in my response to Stephen Trimble’s, The DEW Line, there are no systems out there that does not have collateral damage whether the projectile is hit or not. What goes up must come down. I started with mortar rounds and if I can catch them then we can go to larger projectiles.
I have a quote that I use on my email page. "I am not concerned about what does not exist today but excited about what will be tomorrow" I invite you to expand your thought process and imagination. I challenge you to rather than figure out why something won't work, to how can we make it work. What are your ideas? At least I had the fortitude to take a thought and make it into something. I have a long way to go though.
I really did like the big diaper analogy though, I don’t care who you are that is funny.
Sam Vickroy
Dear Sam,
Well haven't you been a busy little beaver! Well good for you. Keep up the exciting work. A diaper. LOL I like that! My son did another tour in Iraq last year. My husband and I are happy in FL. Life is good and good for you! Congrats!
Jeanetta
Jeanetta,
Thanks so much and tell your son thank you for his service. I have been gone to Alaska for the last several months and will be going back next week. When I realized that there was no completely defensive system to protect soldiers from incoming mortar rounds I started working on this idea. We can shoot the mortar round down but if it is over a populated area there will be collateral damage. I have to be able to get a Kevlar like blanket in front of the round and let the inertia of the round encapsulate the projectile. By being a type of blanket then you really don’t have to be exact and could even change the old saying "Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades". This system integrates several existing systems already in use like command control, target acquisition and sensors. The greatest challenge is weather. A mortar can be launched in any weather but the ability to get the blanket at the apex of the trajectory, or slowest velocity is difficult. But if it were not difficult then it would already be in place. Actually the greatest challenge is overcoming ignorance but that is always the case in trying to get new ideas and concepts into reality.
Stephen Trimble was kind enough to get my concept some exposure in this format. He was amused that my other patents and products were everyday gadgets.
Stay in touch and my email is sam.vickroy@ngc.com
Sam