Air-to-surface missile/Related Articles

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Air tasking order [r]: The process and documentation of plans for the coordinated use of air and missile resources, and ground systems, such as electronic warfare and intelligence collection, which may interact with them ^[e]
Anti-shipping missile [r]: An air, surface (sea or land), or submarine-launched missile that can track and intercept a maneuvering ship target against the background of moving water ^[e]
Anti-tank missile [r]: A air-to-surface or surface-to-surface missile, optimized to defeat the most heavily armored tanks by such measures as attacking the thinnest armor, or using dual warheads to defeat reactive armor ^[e]
Guided missile [r]: A weapon that flies through air or space, under its own power, which adjusts its course to hit its target. ^[e]

AGM-114 Hellfire [r]: A U.S. Army guided missile, fired from attack helicopters, Air Force and CIA unmanned aerial vehicles and ground platforms against tanks and other armored vehicles, bunkers, "soft" vehicles, and cave targets. ^[e]
AGM-65 Maverick [r]: Short-range air-to-surface missile with multiple guidance and warhead options, certified for 25 past and present aircraft ^[e]
BGM-71 TOW [r]: A heavy antitank missile, launched from ground or helicopter platforms; all but the recent air-launched version trail a thin wire through which they receive man-in-the-loop guidance commands ^[e]
Joint Air-Ground Missile [r]: U.S. development program to replace short-range tactical missiles including the [AGM-114 Hellfire]], AGM-65 Maverick, and BGM-71 TOW ^[e]

AGM-84 SLAM [r]: An air-launched land-attack missile derived from the AGM-84 Harpoon, an anti-shipping missile ^[e]
AGM-88 HARM [r]: A specialized anti-radiation missile used by U.S., Italian, and German aircraft to attack air defense radar ^[e]
AGM-130 [r]: An air-to-surface missile derived from the GBU-15 guided bomb, using television or imaging infrared electro-optical guidance through an AN/AXQ-14 data link ^[e]
AGM-142 Raptor [r]: Originally an Israel Aircraft Industries precision-guided standoff weapon called the POPEYE, then the AGM-142 HAVE NAP, the first standoff PGM for the B-52, and now used by the Royal Australian Air Force and Turkish Air Force ^[e]
BaE Systems ALARM [r]: A anti-radiation missile developed by the Royal Air Force, with direct attacks and parachute-borne loiter mode, slower than the U.S. AGM-88 HARM but with more advanced search and suppression capabilities ^[e]
Brimstone missile [r]: Made by MBDA, a derivative of the short-range AGM-114 Hellfire antitank missile, which has, in its most recent version, increased range and midcourse inertial/GPS guidance, and dual-mode (millimeter wave and laser guidance) terminal guidance ^[e]

AGM-86 ALCM [r]: A long-range cruise missile that can be delivered anywhere in the world from U.S. bases, employing blast or precision penetrating warheads ^[e]
AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile [r]: Long-range (>250mi/370km) stealthy air-launched cruise missile with a conventional warhead having hard target penetrator capability ^[e]

AGM-84 Harpoon [r]: A U.S. developed anti-shipping missile that can be launched from aircraft, ships and submarines ^[e]
Exocet [r]: An aging French anti-shipping missile, which can be fired from land, aircraft, helicopter, submarine and ship platforms, and which has a considerable combat record ^[e]
Moskit [r]: A family of Russian supersonic, sea-skimming anti-shipping missiles, ship- and air-launched, all designated by NATO as the SS-N-22 SUNBURN guided missile ^[e]

Raduga KSR-5 [r]: A large, high-altitude, supersonic Russian air-to-surface missile, with a conventional or nuclear warhead, typically used against land or sea radar, or against ships ^[e]