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Parent topics
- Precision-guided munition [r]: A powered or unpowered weapon that adjusts its flight path to hit a specific target, with a circular error probability in the low number of meters, often less than the radius of destruction [e]
Subtopics
Guidance
- Electro-optical guided bomb [r]: Guided bomb under man-in-the-loop control that contains a television or imaging infrared viewer, aerodynamic control surfaces and a two-way link that allows the operator to steer it into the target [e]
- Laser-guided bomb [r]: The first modern class of precision-guided munition, in which the guidance system moves aerodynamic control fins of a glide bomb to keep it centered on the point at which a laser designator beam touches the target [e]
- Azov 27N [r]: Russian family of laser-guided bomb guidance kits, comparable to PAVEWAY I or PAVEWAY II [e]
- PAVEWAY laser guidance [r]: Four-generation series of U.S. laser-guided bomb guidance kits [e]
- PAVEWAY I [r]: First generation of PAVEWAY laser guidance kits for conventional bombs, consisting of a gimballed (i.e., mechanically scanned) laser seeker head, a Computer Control Group (CCG), and aerodynamic control surfaces, both "wings" to improve glide and moving control surfaces, usually on the nose, using bang-bang coarse directional control [e]
- PAVEWAY II [r]: Second generation of U.S. laser-guided bombs, still in partial service as it is considerably cheaper than PAVEWAY I and PAVEWAY III; improved PAVEWAY I still using bang-bang control and difficult to deliver at low altitude, but with a more sensitive seeker and substantial cost reduction engineering [e]
- PAVEWAY III [r]: Third generation of U.S. laser-guided bomb control, with a principal objective of enabling low-altitude drops; first with a fully programmable computer; considerably more expensive than PAVEWAY II [e]
- PAVEWAY IV [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Inertial navigation [r]: Navigation method that does not depend on external references, but computes the present position by sensing the movement of the navigating platform from a precisely known starting point in space, using accelerometers to sense position changes from a reference provided by gyroscopes [e] usually with enhancements from satellite navigation
- Joint Direct Attack Munition [r]: An add-on guidance kit that converts a standard Mark 8x "dumb bomb", or ballistic equivalent, into a precision-guided munition, using inertial navigation enhanced with GPS satellite navigation [e]
- Common Tri-Mode Seeker [r]: (CMTS) a missile guidance subsystem that combines thermal imaging, radar and laser guidance, built by Raytheon [e]
Warheads
- Mark 8x series conventional bomb [r]: The main family of U.S. high-explosive unguided gravity bombs, to which guidance kits such as the Joint Direct Attack Munition or PAVEWAY laser guidance can be attached [e]
- BLU-109 [r]: 2000 pound class warhead designed as a hard target penetrator; ballistically identical to Mark 84 bomb, BLU-111, and BLU-126 so can accept Joint Direct Attack Munition and PAVEWAY laser guidance kits [e]
- BLU-110 [r]: Hard target penetrator of the 1000 pound class, compatible with the Mark 83 bomb, filled with PBXN-109 and with a thermal protective coating [e]
- BLU-118 [r]: Thermobaric explosive warhead filler in a BLU-109 2000-pound hard target penetrator case [e]
- BLU-126 [r]: Low Collateral Damage Bomb; carbon fiber nonfragmenting bombcase and reduced PBXN-109 explosive filler when compared to BLU-111 with which it has identical ballistics and compatibility with Joint Direct Attack Munition and PAVEWAY laser guidance kits [e]
Assembled bombs
- GBU-8 [r]: Vietnam War-era electro-optical guided bomb, with television viewer used to lock the seeker onto the target before release, and self-guiding after release; limited success [e]
- GBU-15 [r]: 2000-pound electro-optical guided bomb with television or imaging infrared, fire-and-forget or man-in-the-loop guidance via AN/AXQ-14 data link; may use Mark 84, BLU-109 or BLU-118 warhead; the AGM-130 is an air-to-surface missile derivative [e]
- AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon [r]: A U.S. precision-guided munition, originally an unpowered guided bomb with much greater gliding range than the cheaper Joint Direct Attack Munition; powered variants with more extensive capabilities are in development [e]
- GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb [r]: Add brief definition or description
- GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast [r]: Add brief definition or description
- GBU-53 Small Diameter Bomb [r]: Add brief definition or description
- KAB-500S [r]: Add brief definition or description