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Command guidance is very much like [[beam riding guidance]], where the missile stays centered in a radar beam that is tracking the target.
Command guidance is very much like [[beam riding guidance]], where the missile stays centered in a radar beam that is tracking the target.


The most modern applications of command guidance involve missiles that can make no course changes on their own, but do have a [[forward-looking infrared]], television, or other imaging sensor whose images are sent back to the operator.
The most modern applications of command guidance involve missiles that can make no course changes on their own, but do have a [[forward-looking infrared]], television, or other imaging sensor whose images are sent back to the operator.[[Category:Suggestion Bot Tag]]

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Command guidance is a means for controlling a precision-guided munition that has no onboard guidance. It can be "man-in-the loop", as with the BGM-71 TOW antitank missile, which trails a wire or fiber over which a human operator directs its path. Alternatively, the commands can be sent by a radio data link, as with the Fritz-X World War II anti-shipping missile.

Command guidance is very much like beam riding guidance, where the missile stays centered in a radar beam that is tracking the target.

The most modern applications of command guidance involve missiles that can make no course changes on their own, but do have a forward-looking infrared, television, or other imaging sensor whose images are sent back to the operator.