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EGBU-15: GBU-15 bomb with inertial and GPS guidance added, for its midcourse guidance, to its existing electro-optical terminal guidance [e]
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Parent topics
- Electro-optical guided bomb [r]: Guided bomb under man-in-the-loop control that contains a television or imaging infrared viewer, aerodynamic control surfaces and a two-way link that allows the operator to steer it into the target [e]
- GBU-15 [r]: 2000-pound electro-optical guided bomb with television or imaging infrared, fire-and-forget or man-in-the-loop guidance via AN/AXQ-14 data link; may use Mark 84, BLU-109 or BLU-118 warhead; the AGM-130 is an air-to-surface missile derivative [e]
- Inertial guidance [r]: Navigation method that does not depend on external references, but computes the present position by sensing the movement of the navigating platform from a precisely known starting point in space, using accelerometers to sense position changes from a reference provided by gyroscopes [e]
- GPS-assisted inertial guidance [r]: Originally developed for U.S. military needs, a satellite-based system for obtaining precise position and time information; the most widely used part of the Global Navigation Satellite System [e]
Subtopics
- Midcourse [r]: That part of the journey of an unmanned vehicle, or a manned vehicle on autopilot, between launch/takeoff/boost phase and final approach/terminal guidance [e]
- Terminal guidance [r]: Provision of information given to a weapon in the final part of its trajectory, or to an aircraft about to land [e]