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PAVEWAY I: 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]
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Parent topics
- 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]
- PAVEWAY laser guidance [r]: Four-generation series of U.S. laser-guided bomb guidance kits [e]
Subtopics
Payloads
- M117 bomb [r]: 750 lb class general purpose bomb, no longer in U.S. service but used extensively during the Vietnam War [e]
- M118E1 bomb [r]: 3000 lb class demolition bomb [e]
- Mark 81 bomb [r]: 250 pound class low-drag gravity bomb (LDGB) of the Mark 8x series conventional bomb family [e]
- Mark 82 bomb [r]: 500 pound class low-drag gravity bomb (LDGB) of the Mark 8x series conventional bomb family [e]
- Mark 83 bomb [r]: 1000 pound class low-drag gravity bomb (LDGB) of the Mark 8x series conventional bomb family [e]
- Mark 84 bomb [r]: 2000 pound class low-drag gravity bomb (LDGB) of the Mark 8x series conventional bomb family [e]
- Mark 20 Rockeye [r]: 500 lb cluster bomb, consisting of a MK 7 MOD 2 dispenser filled with 247 MK 118 0.9 kg (2 lb) anti-tank cluster submunitions [e]
- CBU-74 cluster bomb [r]: Cluster bomb, consisting of a SUU-51/B dispenser filled with 48 BLU-87/B 6.1 kg (13.4 lb) anti-personnel fragmentation cluster submunitions [e]
- CBU-75 cluster bomb [r]: 2000 lb cluster bomb, consisting of a SUU-54A/B dispenser filled with 1800 BLU-63/B 0.45 kg (1 lb) APAM (Anti-Personnel/Anti-Armor) [e]
- Bang-bang control [r]: A technique of aerodynamic control of glide bombs and related weapons, in which either the control surface deflects completely or not at all; contrast with the proportional aerodynamic control used by manned aircraft and some advanced missiles [e]