Missile guidance refers to a variety of methods of guiding a missile or a guided bomb to its intended target. The missile's target accuracy is a critical...

usually have five system components: targeting, guidance system, flight system, engine, and warhead. Missiles are primarily classified into different types...

than range. Most use infrared guidance and are called heat-seeking missiles. In contrast, medium- or long-range missiles (MRAAMs or LRAAMs), which both...

A wire-guided missile is a missile that is guided by signals sent to it via thin wires connected between the missile and its guidance mechanism, which...

Command guidance is a type of missile guidance in which a ground station or aircraft relay signals to a guided missile via radio control or through a wire...

Active radar homing (ARH) is a missile guidance method in which a missile contains a radar transceiver (in contrast to semi-active radar homing, which...

A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched...

passive weapon guidance system which uses the infrared (IR) light emission from a target to track and follow it seamlessly. Missiles which use infrared...

air-to-surface missiles are powered by ramjets, giving them both long range and high speed. Guidance for air-to-surface missiles is typically via laser guidance, infrared...

of the missile. Once the target is identified, the missile needs no further guidance during flight; it is "fire-and-forget", and the missile operator...

The following is a list of active missiles of the United States military. Lists of weapons List of missiles List of missiles by country...

taking into consideration various parametres of the sensors, guidance command, missile capabilities and kill zone computations. There are a number of...

in reference to missile guidance systems, and specifically to missiles that use more than one guidance system through the missile's flight. Common examples...

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...

is a common type of missile guidance system, perhaps the most common type for longer-range air-to-air and surface-to-air missile systems. The name refers...

designer G.N. Volgin. The 3S90 used the same 9M38 missile as the 9K37, though the launcher and associated guidance radars were exchanged for naval variants. After...

Laser guidance is used by military to guide a missile or other projectile or vehicle to a target by means of a laser beam, either beam riding guidance or...

the missile hot launch system scorching the transporter erector launcher (TEL). It was originally intended to use a track-via-missile (TVM) guidance system...

active radar homing air-to-air missile R-77, active radar homing air-to-air missile Unlike radar, anti-radiation guidance does not provide range information...

manually guided to its target with a small joystick, sending guidance corrections to the missile over a radio control link. Blowpipe underwent a protracted...

transmitted to the missile have been used. Early air-to-air missiles used semi-active radar homing guidance, that is the missile used the radiation produced...

division and the KPAGF's rocket and ballistic missiled units were organized into one force under the Missile Guidance Bureau in 1999, currently July 3 is marked...

Television guidance (TGM) is a type of missile guidance system using a television camera in the missile or glide bomb that sends its signal back to the...

subjected to extreme loads and temperatures. Guidance of an ICBM is based not only on the direction the missile is traveling but the precise instant that...

uses active transmit-receive radar guidance instead of semi-active receive-only radar guidance. When an AMRAAM missile is launched, NATO pilots use the...

beam-riding guidance (which was slaved to an optical sight on single-seater fighters and to radar on night fighters) restricted the missile to attacks...

Line-Of-Sight Beam Riding (LOSBR), beam guidance or radar beam riding is a technique of directing a missile to its target by means of radar or a laser...

a location and direction. The guidance system can then use this information to correct the flight path of the missile.[citation needed] During the cruise...

Pursuit guidance, or a pursuit course, is a form of guidance widely used in older guided missiles. In pursuit guidance, the missile is steered so that...

outside the atmosphere and on a sub-orbital trajectory. The guidance system for the missile was developed by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and is...