Missile guidance
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Missile guidance is a field of engineering, specifically guidance, navigation and control, dealing with the control of missiles and guided bombs. Missile guidance systems are designed to maximize the
A guided bomb strikes a practice target
Israeli Arrow 3, which uses proportional navigation to intercept ballistic missiles
Minuteman III guidance system being inspected
Inertial navigation system
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An inertial navigation system is a navigation device that uses motion sensors, rotation sensors and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position, the orientation, and the veloci
Missile guidance
…anti-tank weapons such as the NLAW and FGM-172 SRAW. Astro-inertial guidance, or stellar-inertial guidance, is a sensor fusion-information fusion of inertial guidance and celestial navigation. It is usually employed on submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Unlike silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, whose…
A 1950s inertial navigation control developed at MIT
Apollo IMU
Inertial navigation unit of French IRBM S3.
Apollo gimballed gyrostabilized platform