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Parent topics
- 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]
- 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
Warheads
- Mark 84 bomb [r]: 2000 pound class low-drag gravity bomb (LDGB) of the Mark 8x series conventional bomb family [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-118 [r]: Thermobaric explosive warhead filler in a BLU-109 2000-pound hard target penetrator case [e]
Derivatives
- 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]
- EGBU-15 [r]: GBU-15 bomb with inertial and GPS guidance added, for its midcourse guidance, to its existing electro-optical terminal guidance [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]