Guided
and Unguided Weapons
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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.
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Air to Surface Weapons Articles
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| Australian Aviation -
September 1981 - Laser Guidance |
Australian
Aviation -
June/September 1983 - Antishipping
Weapons and Naval Air Defence
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Australian Aviation -
September 1984 - Precision Guided
Munitions - The New Breed (Assault Breaker)
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| Australian Aviation -
March 1988 - MDC AGM-84A Harpoon and AGM-84E
SLAM |
| Australian Aviation -
May 1988 - Rockwell AGM-130A/B and
Northrop AGM-136A Tacit Rainbow |
| Australian Aviation -
July 1992 - Desert Storm - Precision
Guided Munitions |
| Australian Aviation
- Revised 1998 - The GBU-28 Bunker Buster
(Mirror@F-111.net
, German Translation) |
| Air Power
International - Vol.4.
No.1
1998 - The AGM-88 HARM, Mirror@F-111.net |
| Australian Aviation
- December 1996 - AGM-142E Raptor
- The RAAF's New Standoff Weapon, Mirror@F-111.net |
| Australian Aviation
- August-December 1996, 1997 - GPS
Guided Weapons Part I through V, Mirror@F-111.net |
| Australian Aviation
- June 1996 - The Agile Gliding
Weapon (AWADI/BAeA Aussie Glidebomb), Mirror@F-111.net |
| Australian Aviation -
June 1997 - Matra/BAe ALARM + Matra Armat |
| Australian Aviation -
December 2002 - JDAM Matures - Part 1 |
| Australian Aviation -
January/February 2003 - JDAM Matures - Part 2 |
| Australian Aviation -
July 2004 - Asia's Advanced Precision
Guided Munitions |
| Air Power
Australia - July 2005 - Warship
Vulnerability |
| Air Power
Australia - July 2006 - Dawn of the Smart
Bomb |
| Air & Space Power
Chronicles, Maxwell AFB -
1995 - The
Electromagnetic Bomb - a Weapon of Electrical Mass Destruction
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Translation Part 1, Russian
Translation Part 2, Mirror@GlobalSecurity.org |
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| Air
Power Australia - January 2007 - GBU-39/40/42 Small
Diameter Bomb |
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Power
Australia - January
2007 - Regional Precision Guided
Munitions |
| Air
Power Australia - April 2007 - Maritime
Strike using the F-22A Raptor |
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| Cruise Missile Related Articles |
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| Australian Aviation -
September/November 1985 - Cruise
Missiles (AGM-86/RGM-109) |
| Australian
Aviation - July
1988 - Maritime Strike - The Soviet
Perspective |
| Australian Aviation -
November 1995 - Tomahawks, Submarines
and the F-111 ,
Mirror@F-111.net |
| Australian Aviation -
September 2000 - Sunburns,
Yakhonts, Alfas and the Region |
| Defence Today -
September 2004 - AIR 5418
Cruise
Missiles |
| Australian Aviation -
October 2004 - Defeating
Cruise missiles |
| Australian Aviation -
December 2004 - Cruise Missile Options
for Australia (AIR 5418) |
| Air Power
Australia - July 2005 - Early
Tomahawk Variants - BGM/RGM/AGM-109 Tomahawk/GCLM/MRASM |
Radio 2 - National -
02-March-2006 - JASSM
Introduction - Interview
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Air to Air Weapons Articles
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| Australian
Aviation -
March 1982 - Heat-Seeking Missile
Guidance |
| Australian
Aviation - June
1982 - Active and Semi-Active Radar
Missile Guidance |
Australian
Aviation -
September 1986 - Quo Vadis -
AMRAAM?
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| Australian
Aviation - July
1987 - Evading the Guided Missile |
| Australian Aviation -
April 1994 - The Sidewinder Story -
The
Evolution of the AIM-9 Missile , Mirror@FTA
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| Australian Aviation -
June 1994 - BAe Active Skyflash and
AIM-120 AMRAAM |
Australian
Aviation -
April 1997 - Fourth Generation AAMs - The Rafael Python
4 , Mirror@FTA
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Australian
Aviation - 1997
- Fourth
Generation AAMs - The Matra-BAe AIM-132 ASRAAM
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| Air Power
International - Vol.4.
No.4
1998 - Matra-BAe AIM-132 ASRAAM -
The RAAF's New WVR AAM |
Defence Today - May
2005 - Missiles in the
Asia-Pacific
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Air Power
Australia - March
2008 - The Russian
Philosophy of Beyond
Visual Range Air Combat
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| Air
Defence Weapons Articles |
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Australian
Aviation -
July 1989 - Man Portable Surface-Air
Missiles
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Australian
Aviation -
December 2003 - Man Portable
Missiles vs Airliners (AIAA
Mirror, aircraft-survivability.com
Mirror)
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Australian Aviation -
June/July/August 1993 - Desert
Storm - The Electronic Battle , Mirror@FTA
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| Australian
Aviation -
October 1995 - 76N6 Clam Shell
Acquisition
Radar Revealed |
Australian Aviation -
October 2003 - Asia's New SAMs Pt.1
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Australian Aviation -
November 2003 - Asia's New SAMs Pt.2
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| Defence Today - June
2004 - SEA 4000 - The Air Warfare
Destroyer (PDF) |
Australian Aviation -
March 2005 - Are Helicopters Vulnerable
[MANPADS/RPG]
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Weapon Targeting Technology
Articles
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| Australian
Aviation -
September 1982 - Integrated Flight
and
Fire Control (IFFC Firefly) |
| Australian
Aviation -
November 1989/December 1990 - Optical
Warfare - The New Frontier |
| Australian
Aviation - June
1997 - SAR/GMTI -
Revolution in Bombing Technology |
| Air Power International -
August 1998 - Helmet Mounted
Sights
and Displays |
| Australian
Aviation -
Series 1999 - Quo Vadis, RAAF? Part 1 The
Strategic Context Part 2 The ADF's Alternatives |
| Australian
Aviation -
Series 1999 - Deedle, Deedle, Deedle, BANG! The
Paradigm Shift in Air Superiority |
| Australian
Aviation -
Series 1999 - Measures of Fighter Capability Parts 1 -
3 |
| Australian
Aviation - June
2000 - Maritime Deterrence, Submarines and
Air Power |
Australian
Aviation - June
2002 - Active
Electronically Steered Arrays - A Maturing
Technology
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| Australian
Aviation -
April 2003 - A
Heavy Bomber Rennaissance? |
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The
Parliamentary Debate [Click for more ...]
Related Links [Click for more ...] |
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Developmental AIM-9R gimballed
Focal Plane Array imaging seeker assembly (U.S. Navy photo).
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