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    A guided bomb (also known as a smart bomb, guided bomb unit, or GBU) is a precision-guided munition designed to achieve a smaller circular error probable...
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    laser-guided bomb (LGB) is a guided bomb that uses semi-active laser guidance to strike a designated target with greater accuracy than an unguided bomb. First...
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  • A precision-guided munition (PGM), also called a smart weapon, smart munition, or smart bomb, is a guided munition intended to hit a specific target,...
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    EO/GPS- guidance kit used for converting air-droppable unguided bombs into precision-guided bombs. The featured guidance system is a derivative of the respective...
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    guided GBU-32 JDAM (Mk 83) INS/GPS guided GBU-31 JDAM (Mk 84) INS/GPS guided GBU-X - a guided general-purpose bomb under development as of 2017 Mk 82...
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    Sudarshan (Hindi: सुदर्शन “Krishna's Chakra”) is an Indian laser-guided bomb kit, developed by Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), a DRDO lab...
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  • variety of precision-guided munitions, including the GBU-10/GBU-24/GBU-27 Paveway laser-guided bombs, GBU-15 electro-optical bomb, GBU-31 JDAM and Quickstrike...
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    The GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) is a 250-pound (110 kg) precision-guided glide bomb that is intended to provide aircraft with the ability to carry...
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    separated at altitude and the bomb used a semi-active laser (SAL) seeker to track and engage the target. The laser-guided SDB had previously been tested...
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    increased use of precision-guided munitions, a retronym was needed to separate "smart bombs" from free-fall bombs. "Dumb bomb" was used for a time, but...
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    the falling bomb, making it a kinetic energy weapon. Such weapons can only practically be deployed when configured as a laser-guided bomb or other form...
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    Design Bureau for converting unguided Soviet bombs into precision-guided munitions. This kit is an aerial bomb glide range extension kit, similar to JDAM...
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    aircraft to direct the bomb to a pinpoint target as a pioneering form of precision-guided munition. Modern systems are generally self-guided or semi-automated...
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  • guided bomb. The testbed was the same National Bureau of Standards-developed, unpowered airframe that was later used for the US Navy's radar-guided "Bat"...
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  • Small Diameter Bomb, a 250 lb precision-guided glide bomb GBU-43/B MOAB, a large-yield bomb GBU-44/B Viper Strike, a GPS-aided laser-guided variant of the...
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    warhead of some marks of the GBU-15 electro-optically guided bomb, the GBU-27 Paveway III laser-guided bomb, and the AGM-130 rocket-boosted weapon. This weapon...
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  • KAB-500 (category Guided bombs)
    KAB-500 is a Russian precision guided weapon which comes in four versions: KAB-500KR TV-guided bomb KAB-500L laser-guided bomb KAB-500OD EO correlation TV...
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  • for different purposes. The Mk82 is the warhead for the GBU-12 laser-guided bombs and for the GBU-38 JDAM. Currently only the General Dynamics plant in...
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    cruciform tail fins to guide the bomb to its target. It was also used in the Texas Instruments Paveway series of laser-guided bombs as the GBU-11 when it...
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    Paveway IV (category Aerial bombs of the United Kingdom)
    Paveway IV is a dual mode GPS/INS and laser-guided bomb manufactured by Raytheon UK (formerly Raytheon Systems Limited). It is the latest iteration of...
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    DRDO Glide Bomb is a product of the Defence Research and Development Organisation to deploy a standardised medium range precision guided weapon, especially...
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  • These bombs weighed over two tons but carried only 647 lb (293 kg) of high explosive. They were laser-guided and were designated "Guided Bomb Unit-28...
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  • The High Speed Low Drag (HSLD) bomb is a family of new generation short range air-dropped precision-guided munition that is currently being developed...
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  • Joint Direct Attack Munition (category Guided bombs of the United States)
    kit that converts unguided bombs, or "dumb bombs", into all-weather precision-guided munitions. JDAM-equipped bombs are guided by an integrated inertial...
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    Paveway (category Guided bombs of the United States)
    Paveway is a series of laser-guided bombs (LGBs). Pave or PAVE is sometimes used as an acronym for precision avionics vectoring equipment; literally, electronics...
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  • not part of the kit, but can be supplied. Mark 81 bomb Mark 83 bomb Mark 84 bomb "Seirina Guided Bombs (Greece) - Jane's Air-Launched Weapons". Web.archive...
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    Fritz X (redirect from Fritz X Bomb)
    common name for a German guided anti-ship glide bomb used during World War II. Fritz X was the world's first precision guided weapon deployed in combat...
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    The KAB-500L is a laser-guided bomb developed by the Soviet Air Force, entering service in 1975. It remains in service with the CIS and post-Soviet Russian...
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    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...
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    FAB-500 (category Cold War aerial bombs of the Soviet Union)
    April 2023. "UMPK guided bomb". globalsecurity. 27 March 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2023. "Russia uses its own kind of "smart" bombs in Sumy Oblast". Yahoo...
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