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Parent topics
- Gravity bomb [r]: A bomb with no supplemental propulsion, whose trajectory is determined by initial velocity and gravity, or by the action of aerodynamic control surfaces. [e]
- 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]
- Insensitive high explosives [r]: Explosives, principally for military use, which have an extremely low probability of detonating accidentally or other than as intended in a specific application; not easily converted to improvised explosive devices, will not detonate when engulfed in fire, and, when used in the high explosive initator of a nuclear weapon, unable to trigger fission unless precisely triggered [e]
- Hard target penetrator [r]: A bomb or warhead intended to penetrate rock, concrete or armor before exploding [e]
- Glide bomb [r]: An unpowered air-delivered weapon whose trajectory is not defined purely by gravity and air resistance, but by aerodynamic lift and steering; modern versions are guided bombs. [e]
- Guided bomb [r]: An unpowered, aircraft delivered weapon, which adjusts its course using aerodynamic control surfaces, and is controlled by a human operator or on-board autonomous guidance [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]
- Circular error probability [r]: The most common metric of how close to a target a weapon will strike: the radius of a circle, centered on the mean impact point, in which half the projectiles of that weapon will hit [e]
- Go-onto-location-in-space [r]: A weapons guidance paradigm in which the weapon guides itself to a specific set of geographic coordinates and activates its warhead, rather than sensing and tracking a target [e]
- Go-onto-target [r]: A guidance paradigm in which the sensor follows a potentially moving signal from the target, rather than going to a set of predefined geographic coordinates [e]
Subtopics
Payloads
- 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]
- TNT [r]: Trinitrotoluene, once the most common military explosive but now no longer commercially produced in the U.S. and other countries; still used as the reference for yield of nuclear weapons and other explosives (e.g., TNT has a brisance of 1.0 while the brisance of the plastic explosive, Composition C-4, is 1.34) [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]
- Tritonal [r]: Principally used as the shock-insensitive filler in penetrating bombs, a mixture of 20% aluminium powder and 80% TNT [e]
- BLU-111 [r]: Navy-developed equivalent of Mark 8x series conventional bomb, with same ballistics but filled with the insensitive high explosive, PBXN-109; may have heat-resistant paint and other safety enhancements [e]
- BLU-119 [r]: 2000 pound warhead of the CrashPad design, intended for fast defeat of chemical weapons and biological weapons; uses PBXN-109 insensitive high explosive [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]
- PBXN-109 [r]: An insensitive high explosive made with plastic bonding techniques, used in a wide range of U.S. and allied munitions; composed of 65% RDX (explosive), 15% hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene and, 20% aluminium powder [e]
Interface to carrying aircraft
- MIL-STD-1553 [r]: An extensively used interconnection standard among military electronics components, slow in comparison with local area networks but intended for simple command-response control in electrically noisy environments [e]
- MIL-STD-1760 [r]: Standard mechanical and electrical interface between individual air-dropped weapons and the carrying aircraft; assigns MIL-STD-1553 bus interface to the weapon [e]
JDAM variants
- GBU-31 [r]: Joint Direct Attack Munition that uses a 2000 pound bomb, and has combined inertial guidance refined with the Global Positioning System [e]
- GBU-32 [r]: Joint Direct Attack Munition that uses a 1000 pound bomb, and has combined inertial guidance refined with the Global Positioning System [e]
- GBU-38 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb [r]: Add brief definition or description
- GBU-53 Small Diameter Bomb [r]: Add brief definition or description
- GBU-54 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Fuze subsystems
Guidance technologies
- Midcourse [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Terminal guidance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battlefield air interdiction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ceiling (weapons) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Controlling close support to ground forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
- PAVEWAY laser guidance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Squadron (Brigade Combat Team) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sortie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Special reconnaissance [r]: Add brief definition or description