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Parent topics
- Radar [r]: (acronym for "radio detection and ranging") A technique used for detecting and tracking targets, navigation, imagery, and special applications. [e]
Subtopics
- 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]
- Novator R-172 (missile) [r]: An extremely long-range Russian air-to-air missile, licensed to India, apparently optimized for attacking high-value assets such as Airborne Warning and Control System, air refueling and cruise missile carrier aircraft [e]
- RIM-174 Standard SM-6 [r]: An upgrade of the United States Navy RIM-156 Standard SM-2, which replaces the current semi-active radar homing terminal guidance with active radar using the AIM-120 AMRAAM seeker, giving AEGIS battle management system ships the capability to conduct over-the-horizon anti-air warfare [e]
Related topics
- Over-the-horizon [r]: Used in various military contexts to describe source-to-target relationships that are beyond line of sight, principally terminal guidance for weapons, but also for certain long-range radars [e]
- Infrared guidance [r]: Missile or other guidance that locks onto an infrared energy source, and adjusts its flight controls to keep the source in the center of its course [e]