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The M1156 Precision Guidance Kit (PGK), formerly XM1156, is a U.S. Army-designed precision guidance system to turn existing 155 mm artillery shells into smart weapons ...
XM395 Precision Guided Mortar Munition – (United States) Strix mortar round – (Sweden) KM-8 Gran – (Russia) guided 120 mm artillery shell with Malakhit fire control system. [7] [8] GP120 (GP4) is a Chinese terminal corrected 120 mm mortar shell. [9] GP140 (GP9) is a Chinese semi-active laser (SAL) guidance 120 mm mortar shell.
The Germans were first to introduce PGMs in combat, with KG 100 deploying the 3,100 lb (1,400 kg) MCLOS-guidance Fritz X armored glide bomb, guided by the Kehl-Straßburg radio guidance system, to successfully attack the Italian battleship Roma in 1943, [20] and the similarly Kehl-Straßburg MCLOS-guided Henschel Hs 293 rocket-boosted glide bomb (also in use since 1943, but only against ...
GBU-10 shortly before it impacts a small boat during a training exercise. In 1962, the US Army began research into laser guidance systems and by 1967 the USAF had conducted a competitive evaluation leading to full development of the world's first laser-guided bomb, the BOLT-117, in 1968.
Mannington Mills is a fifth generation family owned international flooring manufacturer with corporate headquarters in Salem, New Jersey. The company was founded in Salem by John Boston Campbell and his sons Neil and Kenneth in 1915. [1] [2] In 2020, Mannington acquired Phenix Flooring, a residential carpet manufacturer based out of Dalton, GA.
In 2011, it created a long-range rifle system that was the first precision guided firearm. [1] [2] Formed by John McHale in February 2011, the company created its first PGF prototype in March 2011. The company offered its first product in January 2013 [3] and a second, the AR Series semi-automatic smart rifle, in January 2014. [4]
TopGun is an add-on guidance kit that converts standard artillery ammunition into a precision guided weapon.
Mannington is a city in Marion County, West Virginia, United States, located in the hills of North Central West Virginia. The population was 1,961 at the 2020 census . In its earliest years it was called Forks of Buffalo or Koon Town, but has been called Mannington since 1856.