beam-rider guidance

beam-rider guidance

[′bēm ‚rīd·ər ′gī·dəns] (navigation) A system for guiding aircraft or spacecraft in which a craft follows a radar beam, light beam, or other kind of beam along the desired path. Also known as beam bracketing; beam-climber guidance.

beam-rider guidance

beam-rider guidanceSurface-to-air missile is launched and is gathered in a wide beam. Thereafter, it is guided onto the target by a narrow beam.beam-rider guidanceSmart bomb homes onto the target. In this case, laser beam helps the bomb to home onto the target.A guidance system in which the equipment aboard the missile enables it to sense its location relative to a radar beam and correct its course, seeking out and following the path made by a radar beam. The missile is gathered in the beam and is guided onto the target continuously by the radar beam locked onto the target. Also called beam-climber guidance.