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Guided and Unguided Weapons



AGM-65A Maverick EO guided test round on A-7D (US Air Force via Ryan Crierie).

Air Power is implicitly tied to the available weapons technology base. No more is this visible in the area of guided weapons, which have evolved very rapidly over the last three decades, and can be expected to further evolve in the future.  The large scale adoption of late generation Russian guided munitions in the Asia-Pacific-Indian region has had a large impact on the relative strategic position of regional nations.

This website will post a selection of relevant articles, submissions and papers.




Air to Surface / Surface to Surface Weapons Topics





Carlo Kopp Defence Today Oct 2010 Artillery in the Digital Age
Carlo Kopp Defence Today Oct 2010 Technological Impact on Close Air Support
Carlo Kopp Defence Today Mar 2010 Modern Satellite Navigation Aided Weapons
Carlo Kopp Defence Today Dec 2009 Modern Laser Guided Bombs
Carlo Kopp APA Analyses
APA-2008-02
Hardening RAAF Air Base Infrastructure
Carlo Kopp
Air Power Australia
Jan 2007
GBU-39/40/42 Small Diameter Bomb
Carlo Kopp
Air Power Australia Apr 2007
Maritime Strike using the F-22A Raptor
Carlo Kopp Air & Space Power Chronicles, Maxwell AFB Jul 2000
EXPANDING THE ENVELOPE - Stealth and Other Strike Roles Mirror@APA
Carlo Kopp
Air Power Australia Jan 2007
Regional Precision Guided Munitions
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation
Dec 2002/
Jan 2003
JDAM Matures - Parts 1 and 2
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Jul 2004
Asia's Advanced Precision Guided Munitions [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Jun 1997
Matra/BAe ALARM / Matra Armat
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Jun 1996
The Agile Gliding Weapon
(AWADI/BAeA Aussie Glidebomb)
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Aug-Dec 1996
GPS Guided Weapons Part I through V
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Dec 1996
AGM-142E Raptor -
The RAAF's New Standoff Weapon
Carlo Kopp
Air Power International 4.1 1998
The AGM-88 HARM
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation 1998
(Revised)
The GBU-28 Bunker Buster 
German Translation
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation July 1992
Operation Desert Storm -
Precision Guided Munitions
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation May 1988
Rockwell AGM-130A/B and
Northrop AGM-136A Tacit Rainbow
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Mar 1988
MDC AGM-84A Harpoon and AGM-84E SLAM
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Sep 1984
Assault Breaker /
Precision Guided Munitions - The New Breed
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Jun 1983
Antishipping Weapons and
Naval Air Defence
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Sep 1981
Laser Guidance
Defence Today Defence Today Aug 2007
Genesis of the Bunker Busting Bomb
Carlo Kopp
Air Power Australia Jul 2006
Dawn of the Smart Bomb
Carlo Kopp
Air Power Australia Jul 2005
Warship Vulnerability
Carlo Kopp Air Power Australia Dec 2010 Evolution of Guided Torpedoes
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today
Jan 2008
Chemical and Biological Weapons [PDF]
Carlo Kopp Defence Today Jun 2004
SEA 4000 - The Air Warfare Destroyer [PDF]
Carlo Kopp Australian Aviation Jun 1997
SAR/GMTI -
Revolution in Bombing Technology





Cruise Missile Related Topics





Carlo Kopp Defence Today Jun 2009 Cruise missile guidance techniques
Carlo Kopp
Air Power Australia
Jul 2005
Early Tomahawk Variants - BGM/RGM/AGM-109 Tomahawk/GCLM/MRASM
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Dec 2004
Cruise Missile Options for Australia (AIR 5418) [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Oct 2004
Defeating Cruise missiles [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today Sep 2004
AIR 5418 Cruise Missiles [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Nov 1995
Tomahawks, Submarines and the F-111
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Sep 1985
Cruise Missiles (AGM-86/RGM-109)





Russian/Soviet and PLA Cruise Missile Related Topics






Air to Air Weapons Topics





Sean O'Connor
Air Power Australia May 2011 Arming America’s Interceptors:
The Hughes Falcon Missile Family

Carlo Kopp Defence Today Mar 2009 Heat-seeking missile guidance
Carlo Kopp Defence Today Mar 2009 Post Cold War Air to Air Missile evolution
Carlo Kopp
Air Power Australia Mar 2008
The Russian Philosophy of Beyond Visual Range Air Combat
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today May 2005
Missiles in the Asia-Pacific [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Air Power International 4.4 1998
Matra-BAe AIM-132 ASRAAM -
The RAAF's New WVR AAM
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Apr 1997
Fourth Generation AAMs - The Rafael Python 4
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Jun 1994
BAe Active Skyflash and AIM-120 AMRAAM
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Apr 1994
The Sidewinder Story -
The Evolution of the AIM-9 Missile
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Jun 1987
Evading the Guided Missile
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Sep 1986
Quo Vadis - AMRAAM?
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Jun 1982
Active and Semi-Active Radar Missile Guidance
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Mar 1982
Heat-Seeking Missile Guidance
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today Jul 2006
Early Fighter Cannon Armament
Carlo Kopp Australian Aviation Jun 2002
Active Electronically Steered Arrays 
- A Maturing Technology
Carlo Kopp Air Power International Aug 1998
Helmet Mounted Sights and Displays
Carlo Kopp Australian Aviation Sep 1982
Integrated Flight and Fire Control
(IFFC Firefly)
Carlo Kopp Australian Aviation 1999
Deedle, Deedle, Deedle, BANG! The Paradigm Shift in Air Superiority





Air Defence  Weapons Topics







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AIM-9R Seeker

Developmental AIM-9R gimballed Focal Plane Array imaging seeker assembly (U.S. Navy photo).



Raytheon AIM-9X Sidewinder with TVC controls and InSb Focal Plane Array seeker (US Navy).



Python 4 fit check on F/A-18B in 1997 (Rafael image).

JHMCS attached to helmet

The JHMCS was intended for large scale deployment on the USAF's F-15C/E, F-16C and F-22, the USN/USMC F/A-18C/E. It is designed as a clip-on attachment to a modified HGU-55/P, HGU-56/P or HGU-68/P helmet, and will provide collimated symbology and imagery to the pilot (VSI).


 
An F-111F of the 431st TES based at McClellan AFB in California, carrying the first GBU-28 test drop article to the Tonopah test range, in February, 1991. Only two USAF types were cleared to carry the weapon at that time, these being the F-15E and F-111. The weapon weighs 4,700 lb (2,130 kg) and is over 19 ft (5.8 m) in length (TI).



Prototype GBU-39/B SDB I attacking Hardened Aircraft Shelter (HAS) - A-7 target (US DoD)



History is made on the third flight test of the EDGE GBU-15 weapon, when the test round impacted within 1.9 metres from the intended aimpoint on the vertical billboard target. This test proved the potential of differential GPS techniques to replace conventional laser guided bombing technology (USAF).

AGM-86C/D CALCM - US Air Force

Trial delivery of an AGM-86C CALCM cruise missile equipped with Wide-Area GPS Enhancement (GPS) differential GPS enhancements to its GPS-inertial guidance system. Note the miss distance against the intended aimpoint [post] (US Air Force).

Advanced Russian AAMs





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