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Infrared guidance: 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]
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Parent topics
- Guided missile [r]: A weapon that flies through air or space, under its own power, which adjusts its course to hit its target. [e]
- Infrared light [r]: In physics and engineering, a non-visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum ranging from wavelengths of 750 nm to 1 mm, between the darkest visible red and the shortest submillimeter wave radar [e]
- Infrared viewing [r]: Range of technologies that do remote sensing in the infrared spectra, including both active illumination and passive reception, and both imaging and non-imaging (i.e., spectrometric) data reduction [e]
Subtopics
- Air-to-air missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AIM-9 Sidewinder [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Python 3 (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vympel K-13 (missile) [r]: With the NATO code name AA-2 ATOLL, a reverse-engineered Soviet copy of an early-model U.S. AIM-9 Sidewinder, the first infrared-guided air-to-air missile produced by the Soviets [e]
- Vympel R-60 (missile) [r]: A short-range air-to-air missile (NATO: AA-8 APHID) with infrared guidance [e]
- Vympel R-27 (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vympel R-73 (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Surface-to-air missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Electronic warfare [r]: A subset of information operations that deals with the use of electromagnetic or kinetic means to degrade an enemy's military electronics systems, to be able to operate one's own electronics in the face of enemy attacks, and to evade those attacks through protection or deception [e]
- Infrared countermeasures [r]: Equipment and flying techniques that can break the lock of a heat-seeking missile on a target aircraft. [e]
- Flare (electronic warfare) [r]: An expendable electronic warfare decoy form of infrared countermeasures [e]
- Deceptive jammer [r]: An electronic warfare device that confuses hostile sensors by sending them false signals that appear more attractive than the real, protected target [e]
- Sacrificial decoy [r]: Using electronic warfare techniques, a (usually) mobile transmitting device that will lure an enemy weapon to attack it rather than the real platform it is protecting [e]
- Night vision devices [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stealth [r]: The popular term for a collection of techniques that make a military vehicle (air, space, land, sea, or undersea) hard to detect and harder to direct weapons against [e]