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Parent topics
- Navigation [r]: Techniques for determining one's own position, a feasible course to be taken to a desired new position, and journeying on that course [e]
- Gyroscope [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Inertial guidance
- Precision-guided munition [r]: A powered or unpowered weapon that adjusts its flight path to hit a specific target, with a circular error probability in the low number of meters, often less than the radius of destruction [e]
- Go-onto-location-in-space [r]: A weapons guidance paradigm in which the weapon guides itself to a specific set of geographic coordinates and activates its warhead, rather than sensing and tracking a target [e]
Primary guidance
- Intercontinental ballistic missile [r]: A ballistic missile, carrying one or more warheads, with a range in excess of 5500 kilometers; the definition traditionally referred to land-based weapons, but some submarine-launched ballistic missiles have this capability [e]
- Submarine-launched ballistic missile [r]: A ballistic missile launched from a normally submerged submarine, which has multiple engineering challenges, chief among them being computing a correct ballistic trajectory from a varying point of launch (POL) [e]
- Joint Direct Attack Munition [r]: An add-on guidance kit that converts a standard Mark 8x "dumb bomb", or ballistic equivalent, into a precision-guided munition, using inertial navigation enhanced with GPS satellite navigation [e]
Midcourse guidance
- 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]
- Cruise missile [r]: A guided missile that uses aerodynamic forces, as well as active jet or rocket propulsion, to stay airborne and to adjust its course. [e]
- AGM-84 Harpoon [r]: A U.S. developed anti-shipping missile that can be launched from aircraft, ships and submarines [e]
- AGM-84 SLAM [r]: An air-launched land-attack missile derived from the AGM-84 Harpoon, an anti-shipping missile [e]
- AGM-86 ALCM [r]: A long-range cruise missile that can be delivered anywhere in the world from U.S. bases, employing blast or precision penetrating warheads [e]
- AIM-120 AMRAAM [r]: A high-performance. beyond-visual-range, air-to-air missile with inertial midcourse guidance and active radar terminal guidane, developed by the U.S. and used on the aircraft of a number of countries, as well as in surface-to-air missile variants [e]
- Otomat (missile) [r]: Made by MBDA, an over-the-horizon, ship-launched missile for hitting ship and land targets [e]
- Vympel R-27 (missile) [r]: Russian air-to-air missile in continued development, principally a medium- to long-range beyond-visual-range weapon [e]
Manned platforms
- A-10 Thunderbolt II [r]: A heavily armed close air support and ground attack aircraft, which can loiter over a battlefield and then hit targets with great accuracy, while retaining high survivability against ground fire. [e]
- B-52 Superfortress (bomber) [r]: United States Air Force heavy bomber, first version flown in 1952, entered service in 1961, expected to stay operational until at least 2030 [e]
- MC-130 COMBAT SHADOW [r]: A long-range U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command aircraft intended to refuel special operations helicopters, and carry out other clandestine functions such as leaflet drops [e]
- Inertial propulsion [r]: The technological concept of a an engine that moves a spacecraft without using any external body to push from, and without jettisoning any of its parts. [e].