guided missile

guid·ed missile

(gī′dĭd)n. A self-propelled missile that can be guided while it is in flight.

guided missile

n (Military) a missile, esp one that is rocket-propelled, having a flight path controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal preset or self-actuating homing devices. See also command guidance, field guidance, homing guidance, inertial guidance, terrestrial guidance

guid′ed mis′sile

n. an aerial missile, as a rocket, steered during its flight by radio signals, clockwork controls, etc. [1945–50]

guided missile

An unmanned vehicle moving above the surface of the Earth whose trajectory or flight path is capable of being altered by an external or internal mechanism. See also aerodynamic missile; ballistic missile.

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Noun

guided missile - a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devicesABM, antiballistic missile - a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles; "the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks placed limits on the deployment of ABMs"buzz bomb, flying bomb, robot bomb, V-1, doodlebug - a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bombExocet - a guided missile developed by the French government for use against shipsguidance device, guidance system - a system of equipment for automatically guiding the path of a vehicle (especially a missile)homing device - the mechanism in a guided missile that guides it toward its objectivemissile - a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote controlspace probe - a rocket-propelled guided missile that can escape the earth's atmosphere; makes observations of the solar system that cannot be made by terrestrial observationSAM, surface-to-air missile - a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne targetpayload, warhead, load - the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents

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guide

(gaid) verb1. to lead, direct or show the way. I don't know how to get to your house – I'll need someone to guide me; Your comments guided me in my final choice.引导2. to control the movement of. The teacher guided the child's hand as she wrote.指导 noun1. a person who shows the way to go, points out interesting things etc. A guide will show you round the castle.向导2. (also ˈguidebook) a book which contains information for tourists. a guide to Rome.旅行指南3. (usually with capital) a Girl Guide. 女童子军4. something which informs, directs or influences. 指南ˈguidance noun advice towards doing something. a project prepared under the guidance of the professor. 指导，引导 ˈguideline noun (usually in plural) an indication as to how something should be done. 方针guided missile an explosive rocket which can be guided to its target by radio waves. 导弹

missile

(ˈmisail) noun1. a weapon or object which is thrown or fired from a gun, bow etc. 投掷武器，发射物 2. a rocket-powered weapon carrying an explosive charge. a ground-to-air missile.导弹guided missile a rocket-powered missile which is directed to its target by a built-in device or by radio waves etc. 导弹

guided missile

missile, guided:

see guided missileguided missile,
self-propelled, unmanned space or air vehicle carrying an explosive warhead. Its path can be adjusted during flight, either by automatic self-contained controls or remote human control. Guided missiles are powered either by rocket engines or by jet propulsion.
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guided missile,

self-propelled, unmanned space or air vehicle carrying an explosive warhead. Its path can be adjusted during flight, either by automatic self-contained controls or remote human control. Guided missiles are powered either by rocketrocket,
any vehicle propelled by ejection of the gases produced by combustion of self-contained propellants. Rockets are used in fireworks, as military weapons, and in scientific applications such as space exploration.
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propulsion of a body by a force developed in reaction to the ejection of a high-speed jet of gas. Jet Propulsion Engines

The four basic parts of a jet engine are the compressor, turbine, combustion chamber, and propelling nozzles.
..... Click the link for more information. . The American, R. H. GoddardGoddard, Robert Hutchings,
1882–1945, American physicist and rocket expert, b. Worcester, Mass., grad. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 1908), Ph.D. Clark Univ., 1911. From 1914 he was associated with Clark Univ., becoming a professor of physics in 1919.
..... Click the link for more information. , did important early work on rockets, but guided missiles were first developed in their military form by the Germans, who in World War II employed V-1 and V-2 missiles against Great Britain and the Low Countries. The V-1 was the first cruise missile; it was powered through most of its flight and followed a straight-line trajectory to its target. The V-2, which was powered only during the first part of its flight, was the world's first operational ballistic missile, with a powered launch followed by an unpowered parabolic trajectory, sometimes guided by radio. Such missiles have since become the key strategic weapon of modern warfare and a crucial, and much used, tactical weapon.

Guided missiles are of various types and ranges. Missiles may be aerodynamic, i.e., controlled by aerodynamic surfaces and following a straight-line trajectory to the target, or ballistic, i.e., powered during flight and following a parabolic trajectory. Long-range missiles generally have nuclear warheads, while short-range missiles usually have high-explosive warheads.

Aerodynamic missiles are of four types. Air-to-air missiles are fired by aircraft at enemy aircraft and are often guided by self-contained controls that detect and target the missile toward heat sources. Surface-to-air missiles, such as the U.S. Patriot missile and Israeli Iron Dome system missiles, operate against aircraft or other missiles. Both types may supplement antiaircraft guns. Air-to-surface missiles, launched by aircraft against ground positions, are generally radio-controlled. Surface-to-surface missiles (including ship and submarine launched versions) include many different types, such as antitank weapons. Longer-range surface-to-surface missiles, such as the Iraqi Scud, are in fact short-range ballistic missiles. Cruise missilescruise missile,
low-flying, continuously powered offensive missile designed to evade defense systems. Although the German V-1 (1944) was a simple cruise missile, the cruise missile did not realize its potential until the 1970s, when the United States sought to develop a
..... Click the link for more information. , which are launched like a missile but use flipout wings and a turbofan engine to fly like an airplane to the target at altitudes of about 50 ft (15 m), are either air-to-surface or surface-to-surface missiles.

All long-range missiles are ballistic. The intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) can reach targets up to 1,500 nautical miles away, while the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has a range of many thousands of miles. The first operational U.S. ICBM, the Atlas D, was controlled by radio, but since then inertial guidance, which uses internal gyroscopes to calculate and correct direction (sometimes with celestial, and then terrestrial readings), has been used. The key U.S. offensive ballistic missiles are the Minutemen ICBMs, which are launched from silos, and the submarine-launched Tridents, which replaced the earlier Polaris and Poseidon. All currently deployed ballistic missiles can be equipped with Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRVs), which permit one booster to carry several warheads, each guided to a separate target. An antiballistic missile (ABM) is designed to detect and intercept enemy ballistic missiles. Space-, air-, sea-, and mobile land-based ABMs were barred by the 1972 ABM treaty, but the United States announced its withdrawal from that agreement in 2001.

The Soviet Union completed the first operative ICBMs in 1958, and the United States, reacting to a supposed "missile gap," gained overwhelming missile superiority by 1962, which in terms of accuracy and payload it never relinquished. Offensive and defensive ballistic missiles have been regulated by a number of arms control agreements between the United States and the USSR/Russia (see disarmament, nucleardisarmament, nuclear,
the reduction and limitation of the various nuclear weapons in the military forces of the world's nations. The atomic bombs dropped (1945) on Japan by the United States in World War II demonstrated the overwhelming destructive potential of nuclear weapons
..... Click the link for more information. ). Military ballistic missiles have been used as launchers for civilian space projects (see space explorationspace exploration,
the investigation of physical conditions in space and on stars, planets, and other celestial bodies through the use of artificial satellites (spacecraft that orbit the earth), space probes (spacecraft that pass through the solar system and that may or may not
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Bibliography

See L. Martin, The Changing Face of Nuclear Warfare (1987); D. Mackenzie, Inventing Accuracy (1990).

guided missile

[′gīd·əd ¦mis·əl] (ordnance) An uncrewed self-propelled vehicle, with or without a warhead, which is designed to move in a trajectory or flight path all or partially above the earth's surface and whose trajectory or course, while in flight, is capable of being directed by remote control, by homing systems, or by inertial or programmed guidance from within; excludes drones, torpedoes, and rockets and other vehicles whose trajectory or course cannot be controlled while in flight.

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noun a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices

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