Glide bomb/Related Articles: Difference between revisions

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Fritz-X [r]: First used by the Luftwaffe in WWII, the first precision guided munition to be used by an aircraft to attack a ship; a visually-guided rocket-boosted bomb ^[e]
RAZON [r]: Add brief definition or description

AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
Brilliant Anti-Tank [r]: An unpowered but aerodynamically guided, gliding weapon, originally developed as a cluster submunition for the MGM-140 ATACMS missile, but has been repurposed as a weapon to be dropped from armed unmanned aerial vehicles ^[e]
GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb [r]: Add brief definition or description
Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser [r]: A strap-on inertial guidance correction kit for high-altitude release of cluster bomb units, including those not affected by restrictions on antipersonnel munitions such as antitank, microwave jammers, and electrical power line attack ^[e]

Joint Direct Attack Munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
Global Positioning System [r]: Originally developed for U.S. military needs, a satellite-based system for obtaining precise position and time information; the most widely used part of the Global Navigation Satellite System ^[e]
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]
Tactical Air Launched Decoy [r]: Add brief definition or description

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