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  2. Missile guidance - Wikipedia

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    Since so many types of missile use this guidance system, they are usually subdivided into four groups: A particular type of command guidance and navigation where the missile is always commanded to lie on the line of sight (LOS) between the tracking unit and the aircraft is known as command to line of sight (CLOS) or three-point guidance. That ...

  3. AGM-114 Hellfire - Wikipedia

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    An Israeli Air Force AH-64 launched a Hellfire missile at the UAV, successfully destroying it. [37] [independent source needed] In January 2016 The Wall Street Journal reported that one training missile without a warhead was accidentally shipped to Cuba in 2014 after a training mission in Europe; [38] it was later returned. [39]

  4. AGM-158C LRASM - Wikipedia

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    LRASM-A is a subsonic cruise missile based on Lockheed Martin's 500 nm-range AGM-158 JASSM-ER; Lockheed Martin was awarded initial development contracts. [28] LRASM-B was planned to be a high-altitude supersonic missile along the lines of the Indo-Russian BrahMos, but it was cancelled in January 2012. Captive carry flight tests of LRASM sensors ...

  5. Command guidance - Wikipedia

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    Since so many types of missile use this guidance system, they are usually subdivided into four groups: A particular type of command guidance and navigation where the missile is always commanded to lie on the line of sight (LOS) between the tracking unit and the aircraft is known as command to line of sight (CLOS) or three-point guidance. That ...

  6. Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System - Wikipedia

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    The APKWS II system is composed of the launch platform, rockets equipped with the WGU-59/B mid-body guidance unit, the lengthened 7-tube LAU-68 F/A rocket launcher, the SCS 7 aiming cue (not needed for attack helicopters), and Fastpack PA-140 and CNU-711/E storage kits for rockets and guidance kits, respectively, to ensure they are safe in the ...

  7. Guidance, navigation, and control - Wikipedia

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    The missile's seeker head homes in on the infrared (heat) signature from the target's engines (hence the term "heat-seeking missile"), Ultraviolet homing, used in FIM-92 Stinger - more resistive to countermeasures, than IR homing system; Laser guidance : A laser designator device calculates

  8. Proportional navigation - Wikipedia

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    A missile (blue) intercepts a target (red) by maintaining constant bearing to it (green) Proportional navigation (also known as PN or Pro-Nav) is a guidance law (analogous to proportional control) used in some form or another by most homing air target missiles. [1]

  9. Guidance system - Wikipedia

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    A guidance system is a virtual or physical device, or a group of devices implementing a controlling the movement of a ship, aircraft, missile, rocket, satellite, or any other moving object.