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	News About Missiles
		The indigenously developed Babur (Hatf-VII) missile has a range of 700 kilometres (437 miles) and "near stealth" properties, it said in a statement.The missile was last tested in March and first fired in 2005, since when its range has been increased from 500 kilometres.
		Congratulating the Indian Army for acquiring supersonic cruise missile BrahMos at a function marking the commencement of its delivery, Kalam said that in the emerging network centric warfare scenario, the fast...
		It was the third launch of short-range conventionally armed missiles in less than a month.
	www.spacewar.com /missilenews.html (1173 words)

	Wire-guided missile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A wire-guided missile is a missile guided by signals sent to it via thin wires reeled out during flight.
		Wire guidance is obviously limited by the length of the wire; the longest-ranged wire-guided missiles in current use are limited to about 2.5 miles.
		Wire guidance has remained the main system for most smaller weapons, although newer systems such as laser beam riding have come into use in anti-aircraft and some anti-tank use roles, e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wire-guided_missile (366 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Guided Missiles
		Guided Missiles, self-propelled aerial projectiles, usually containing conventional or nuclear explosives, guided in flight towards a target either by remote control or by internal mechanisms.
		Guided missiles vary widely in size and type, ranging from large strategic ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads to small, portable rockets carried by foot soldiers.
		Missile velocity, pitch, yaw, and roll are sensed by internal gyroscopes and accelerometers, and course corrections are made mechanically by slightly altering the thrust of the rocket exhaust by means of movable vanes or deflectors.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560558/Guided_Missiles.html (1380 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Guided Missiles
		Tactical missiles are used by military forces in direct combat on and above the battlefield; support missiles are employed behind the main battle area; and strategic missiles are designed for intercontinental warfare.
		Aerodynamic missiles are supported in flight by air pressure around their wing and body surfaces, similar to conventional piloted aircraft, whereas ballistic missiles depend solely on their internal power source, usually a rocket engine, to remain airborne.
		Aerodynamic missiles normally travel on a straight-line or flat trajectory towards their target, and ballistic missiles are usually surface-to-surface weapons that follow curved or arched trajectories similar to that of an artillery projectile.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560558_2/Guided_Missiles.html (1021 words)

	Guided missile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After the boost-stage ballistic missiles follow a trajectory mainly determined by ballistics, the guidance is for relatively small deviations from that.
		However the British were able to render their systems useless by jamming their radios, and missiles with wire guidance were not ready by D-Day.
		Since the missile is typically being launched after the target was detected using a powerful radar system, it makes sense to use that same radar system to track the target, thereby avoiding problems with resolution or power.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guided_missile (1359 words)

	Guided Missiles
		Missiles may also be grouped by their area of operation: Tactical missiles are used by military forces in direct combat on and above the battlefield; support missiles are employed behind the main battle area; and strategic missiles are designed for intercontinental warfare.
		Aerodynamic missiles are supported in flight by air pressure around their wing and body surfaces similar to conventional piloted aircraft; ballistic missiles depend solely on their internal power source, usually a rocket engine, to remain airborne.
		Like almost all tactical missiles, however, their success depends on the skill of the operator, in this case the aircraft pilot, to identify hostile targets visually or by radar and to manoeuvre the launching platform in order to place the missile in the vicinity of the moving target.
	www.defencejournal.com /jun99/guided-missiles.htm (2088 words)

	Apparatus for lauching umbilical-guided missiles - Patent 5042390 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Guided missiles (10) which trail control umbilicals such as optical fibers (20) are launched from an array (16) of launch tubes (14) that point in the same direction.
		Wire guided missiles, wherein the umbilical is a metallic wire through which electrical signals are transmitted, have been known and used for some time.
		The missile 10 is propelled by rocket engines (not visible inside the missile), each of which produces an exhaust plume 22 of hot exhaust gas that extends outwardly and downwardly from the missile 10 against the face of the array 16.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /5042390.html (2915 words)

	Wire-guided missile -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A wire-guided missile is a (Rocket carrying passengers or instruments or a warhead) missile guided by signals sent to it via thin wires reeled out during flight.
		Wire guidance was first employed by the (A person of German nationality) Germans during (A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherl) World War II.
		Large numbers of (A native or inhabitant of Israel) Israeli tanks were destroyed using wire guided missiles during the (Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (on Yom Kippur); Israel counterattacked and drove the Syrians back and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt) Yom Kippur War of 1973.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wire-guided_missile.htm (428 words)

	Wire guided missile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A wire-guided missile is a missile guided by signals sent to itvia thin wires reeled out during flight.
		Wire guidance has remained the main system for most smaller weapons, although laser beam riding systems have come into use for the anti-aircraft role, and some longer range anti-tank use (notablythe US's helicopter-launched Hellfire missile.
		The US Army 's new Javelin anti-tank missile uses neither wires nor lasers;the missile has a small thermal imaging TV camera in the nose and a computer that is sufficiently sophisticated that once lockedonto a tank, it will follow it autonomously, even if it is moving.
	www.therfcc.org /wire-guided-missile-191329.html (336 words)

	Wire-guided missile
		A wire-guided missile is a missile guided by signals sent to it via thin wires reeled out during flight, with a length of up to 3,750 m.
		The first system to be modified in this fashion was the Henschel Hs 249[?]B anti-shipping missile, but by the time it was ready it was too late to be useful as the Allies had already landed strong forces in France.
		By the early 1950s a number of experimental systems had been developed, leading to their widespread deployment in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/Wire-guided_missile.html (259 words)

	Launcher for an optically guided, wire-controlled missile with improved electronic circuitry - Patent 4705237 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Guided missiles of this type fly to the point indicated in the crosshairs of a launcher's sight within a design range of the missile, e.g.
		By this input the angle of attack of the missile is caused to vary with time in synchronism with the gradual reduction of the missile velocity thereby insuring that the missile maintains a desired lift also after the flight motor has expired.
		Once rolling of the missile about its longitudinal axis has stopped, two types of corrections are required for the flight control of a TOW missile, namely the correction of the elevation pitch and the correction of the azimuth or yaw, and for this purpose two separate channels are needed.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4705237.html (2260 words)

	[9.0] Antiship Missiles (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Interest in guided antiship weapons declined after the war, due to the limitations of the guidance technology available at the time and emphasis on the nuclear option, but by the late 1960s interest in guided munitions had revived and navies were beginning to take an interest in antiship missiles.
		The missile is fitted with a blast-fragmentation warhead derived from that used on the AS-12.
		The missile cruises until it is about 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from the target's position, as determined by a timer set during the launch sequence by the launch vessel's fire-control system, and then switches on the seeker.
	www.vectorsite.net /twbomb9.html (5132 words)

	Wire-guided missile Definition / Wire-guided missile Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wire guidance is obviously limited by the length of the wire; the longest-ranged wire-guided missile in current use are limited to about 2.5 miles; the Tube-Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire-Guided Missile System (TOW), with a range of 3750 m [1] (http://equipment.armystudyguide.com/weapons/air_defense/tow.htm)and the British SwingfireSwingfire is a wire-guided anti-tank missile in service with the British Army.
		[click for more] missile, when vehicle launched, with a range of 4000m [2] (http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/av/av_str.htm) but it would be unlikely to be used at extreme range.
		Wire-guided missile is the anti-tank weapon of choice for helicopter or ground-based forces.
	www.elresearch.com /Wire-guided_missile (274 words)

	M22 Guided Missile Armament Subsystem
		Four wings that are offset 0.8 degrees from the centerline of the missile body cause it to spin during its flight.
		Command guidance signals from the control stick are transmitted to the missile through the Guidance Control Unit and the two guidance wires that unwind from bobbins inside the missile while it is in flight.
		These basic commands are converted to coded electronic guidance signals in the Guidance Control Unit, and decoded inside the missile, where they are routed to the appropriate missile control devices that actuate the jet deflectors in the exhaust of the sustainer motor, and guide the missile.
	www.aircav.com /huey/m22.html (280 words)

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		Wire guided missiles can’t be fired if the LOF passes through a wood hex (not only a blocking green hexside, but also a wood portion of the hex).
		Missile’s wires passing through woods and bushes causes missile to divert from its path.
		Wire guided missiles can’t be fired if the LOF passes through a river hex.
	grognard.com /marco/rules.doc (1312 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For example, the US Army has vehicles (such as the M113 armored personnel carrier), which may mount anti-tank missiles for defense, but that is not their primary role, which is left to vehicles like the M901 "Improved TOW Vehicle," with its thermal imaging sights and TOW heavy wire-guided antitank missile launcher.
		With the onset of guided anti-tank missiles in the late 1950s and early 1960s, which enabled most vehciles to mount some sort of anti-tank weapon, the concept of the tank destroyer as a separate class of armored vehicle gradually disappeared.
		A helicopter gunship can sometimes get away with moving slightly while the missile is in flight because it moves smoothly, rather than bouncing violently cross-country and causing the gunner to get a fl eye from being whacked in the face repeatedly by the eyepiece of his missile launcher's sight.
	pardus.info /index.php?title=Tank_destroyer (958 words)

	Tank: Present, Future, Ogre..., by Charles R. Bowles
		The Sagger is a relatively slow missile which must be delicately guided to the target by a man observing both the target and the missile from the launch point.
		The missile must be in flight for a minimum of four seconds, and for best results, six to eight seconds, in order to allow the guidance man to gently stabilize and properly aim it.
		Even if they fail to hit the missile or guidance man (the odds favor a hit on one or the other), the impact of thousands of flechettes all around the guidance man is certain to cause him to flinch at the critical moment of guidance.
	www.sjgames.com /ogre/articles/tankpfo.html (2635 words)

	Re: wire guided vehicle
		There are wire guided torpedoes, wire guided missiles and wire guided fork lifts etc. for warehousing use.
		The photocells are wired so that the right photocell generates a negative voltage over the white line and the left photo cell generates a positive voltage when over the white line.
		The antennas are wired to produce opposite currents (and voltages) generating a steering signal in a manner similar to the photocell robot.
	www.madsci.org /posts/archives/1998-11/910214740.Eg.r.html (778 words)

	Missiles Guided Weapons World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A wire guided version (Hs 298 V2) with a much larger warhead of 105.8 lb (48 kg) was also developed and briefly tested before wars end.
		The X4 was wire guided from the carrier fighter to the target proximity, where it automatically exploded by means of an acoustic fuse.
		The Hs 293V-4 and C-1 were guided by radio, like the Fritz-X, but after the Germans found that the Allies were capable of interferring with the control signals to the missile wire guidance was adopted.
	www.ww2guide.com /missiles.shtml (2849 words)

	AGM-114 Hellfire
		An autonomous engagement requires the aircraft launching the missile to guide it all the way to the target after the missile is away.
		In contrast, a remote engagement requires an aircraft to serve as a launch platform, providing a missile for another aircraft or a ground observer, designating with a laser, to guide the missile to its intended target.
		The advantage to using this particular delivery mode is that the air crew is assured that the missile has already positively locked on to the target prior to launch from the aircraft, thereby reducing the possibility of a lost or uncontrolled missile.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/missile/agm-114.htm (1551 words)

	Argentine ATGMs
		The missiles are fired from a box launcher; these are connected to the guidance unit used by the gunner by wires, and the operator may be connected to as many as 12 launcher boxes (though he may guide only one at a time).
		The missile is wire guided, and controlled from a guidance unit that is connected by wires to the launcher box.
		Two versions of the missile are available: the standard Mathogo-1, and the Mathogo-2 with an improved motor for longer range and improved warhead.
	www.pmulcahy.com /atgm/argentine_atgm.htm (336 words)

	American Metal Market: TOW wire supplier not expecting to up production level - tubular-launched optically tracked ...
		TOW (Tubular-launched Optically tracked Wire-guided) missiles are primarily ground-based weapons that are launched from small mobile missile launchers, either carried by infantry teams or mounted on an armored personnel carrier or jeep.
		The use of the wire provides a secure and unjammable means of communication between missile and controller.
		Hughes is the prime contractor for the missile.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3MKT/is_n22_v99/ai_9371536 (405 words)

	BGM-71 M-220 Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided missile (TOW)
		The TOW was one of the earliest missile systems to arrive in SWA because of the large Iraqi armored threat it was deployed with some of the first units in Saudi: the 82nd Airborne Division, the 24th Mechanized Division and the101st Airborne Division.
		TOW missiles proved to be a determining factor in the first ground engagement of Operation Desert Storm.
		Manufactured by Hughes Aircraft Company, the TOW is the most widely distributed anti-tank guided missile in the world with over 500,000 built and in service in the U.S. and 36 other countries.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/munitions/tow.htm (2649 words)

	German Guided Missiles: Henschel Hs 293 and Ruhrstahl SD 1400X "Fritz X" (Merriam Press Monograph 53) Excerpt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Since the RLM was primarily interested in an anti-shipping missile, it was found that a pure glide bomb lacked sufficient speed and weight to penetrate warship hulls.
		The entire length of the missile was 11 feet 87/8 inches with a diameter of 1 foot 67/8 inches.
		The missile was usually painted a light blue to match the underside of the Do 217, which generally carried the bomb operationally.
	www.merriam-press.com /mono_075/m053-ex.htm (2521 words)

	Conflict with Iraq: Iraq suspected of using Russian-made anti-tank missile
		According to some reports, Iraqi irregulars are using the 68-pound missiles by attaching them to the back of pickup trucks to blend in with normal traffic.
		The launchers are disposable and new missiles can be set up on the aiming tripod at a rate that would allow soldiers using them to fire two per minute.
		The missile's warhead is composed of a high explosive and incendiary charge that produces a jet of heat to eat through a tank's metal armor.
	web.naplesnews.com /03/04/naples/d921412a.htm (690 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bahrain - Organization and Equipment \| Bahraini Information Resource
		The army's antitank guided wire missiles include twenty-five TOWs from the United States, some of them mounted on Urutu chassis, as well as French Milan and HOT and the older British Vigilant systems.
		Because of difficulties of coordination between air- and ground-based defenses, the operation of air defense missiles was shifted to the air force in 1988.
		In 1991 the United States agreed to the sale of twenty Apache attack helicopters after the administration overcame objections in Congress by pointing out that the helicopters were needed to defend the UAE's oil platforms in the gulf and to enable the UAE to contribute more effectively to the deterrence of aggression by Iraq.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/bahrain/bahrain65.html (576 words)

	News About UAVs
		Military experts say UAVs will mainly carry air-to-air and air-to-surface guided missiles, as well as smart aviation bombs and cluster bombs, including submunitions with different gu...
		Aurora Flight Sciences has signed a contract with the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (SMDC/ARSTRAT) for the continued development of the Orion HALL ultra-long endurance unmanned air system.
		Orion HALL's primary mission is to serve as the demonstration testbed for an advanced hydrogen propulsion system.
	www.spacewar.com /uav.html (1246 words)

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