Chief of Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (CGWEO) is a three-star role within the Australian Defence Force (ADF), responsible for guided weapons...
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Leon Phillips (RAAF officer) (category Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia)
the Head of Aerospace Systems from January 2022 to May 2023, and is currently the inaugural Chief of Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance from 8 May...
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GBU-57A/B MOP (redirect from GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator)
GBU-57 series MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) is a 30,000 pound (13,607 kg) class, 20.5-foot-long (6.2 m) precision-guided munition "bunker buster" bomb...
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allowing them to be fired by lower-powered weapons that generate less recoil. The performance of HEAT weapons has nothing to do with thermal effects, with...
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broad mission of the Ordnance Corps is to supply Army combat units with weapons and ammunition, including at times, their procurements and maintenance....
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Ammunition and Explosives Weapons, Vehicles & Equipment Materials and Components Armoured Vehicles Ordnance Equipment Group of Factories Each of the above...
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Armour-piercing ammunition (redirect from Armour-piercing high explosive)
Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare (London: Phoebus, 1978), Volume 10, p. 1037. "Rocket-Propelled Bomb PC 1000 Rs". Catalog Of Enemy Ordnance Material...
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BLU-109 bomb (category Aerial bombs of the United States)
as the warhead of some marks of the GBU-15 electro-optically guided bomb, the GBU-24 Paveway III and GBU-27 Paveway III laser-guided bombs, as well as...
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artillery weapons, military hardware, precision weapons as well as developing and producing indigenous ordnance weapons and equipment. BD-08: BD-08 and BD-08...
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Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon (SAAW) is a long-range precision-guided anti-airfield weapon developed by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation...
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Mark 84 bomb (category Cold War aerial bombs of the United States)
bombs into GPS/INS guided smart bombs. According to a test report conducted by the United States Navy's Weapon System Explosives Safety Review Board...
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improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional...
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Australian Missile Corporation (category Guided missile manufacturers)
Admiral of the Royal Australian Navy. As part of a 2021 initiative, headed by the Department of Defence, the Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise...
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Incendiary device (redirect from Incendiary weapons)
Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices, incendiary munitions, or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires. They may destroy structures or sensitive...
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Targeting and Fire Control System ATG – Anti-Tank Gun ATGL – Anti-Tank Grenade Launcher ATGM – Anti-Tank Guided Missile ATGW – Anti-Tank Guided Weapon ATIRS...
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Shaped charge (category Explosives engineering)
if shaped with a cavity, is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's energy. Different types of shaped charges are used for various...
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Cluster munition (category Explosive weapons)
A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Commonly, this is a cluster...
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Current senior Australian Defence Organisation personnel (redirect from List of current senior Australian Defence Organisation personnel)
Chief of Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (CGWEO) Principal Deputy Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate Associate Secretary of...
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of development of advanced rocketry further in Europe. Indian government constituted a teamd Special Weapons Development Team in 1958 to study guided...
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of a tank. Modern tank guns are high-velocity, large-caliber artilleries capable of firing kinetic energy penetrators, high-explosive anti-tank, and cannon-launched...
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war, the Ordnance Board continued to provide independent authoritative advice on the development and design of weapons, ammunition and explosives; the positions...
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Henschel Hs 293 (category World War II guided missiles of Germany)
9-1985-2, German Explosive Ordnance" (PDF). ibiblio.org/hyperwar. p. 15. Retrieved August 1, 2013. "Guided German air to ground weapons in WW2". Archived...
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Spike (missile) (redirect from Spike antitank guided missile)
Israeli fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile and anti-personnel missile with a tandem-charge high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead. As of 2024[update]...
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RDX (redirect from Research Department Explosive)
Bridgwater; the Chemical Research and Development Department, Woolwich; and the Director of Royal Ordnance Factories, Explosives. RDX was widely used during...
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and the Soviet Union) to develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear...
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Gun Field gun Naval artillery Howitzer Mortar (weapon) Explosive ordnance causes damage through release of chemical energy. Artillery shell Bangalore torpedo...
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The Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) was an Indian Ministry of Defence programme for the research and development of the comprehensive...
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Ministry of Supply. The Ministry of Supply was responsible for building and running the Royal Ordnance Factories, which produced explosives and propellants...
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Fritz X (category World War II guided missiles of Germany)
guided anti-ship glide bomb used during World War II. Developed alongside the Henschel Hs 293, Fritz X was one of the first precision guided weapons deployed...
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V-2 rocket (redirect from V-2 guided missile)
Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat-4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile...
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