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The AGM-12 Bullpup is a short-range air-to-ground missile developed by Martin Marietta for the US Navy. It is among the earliest precision guided air-to-ground weapons and the first to be mass produced.
A pilot inspects an AGM-65 Maverick missile on his A-10 Thunderbolt II. The RAF's Brimstone missile is a fire and forget anti-tank missile. A Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missile of the German Luftwaffe. An air-to-surface missile (ASM) or air-to-ground missile (AGM) is a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft at targets on
They were intended for use against small ground or naval targets. The Kh-66 was effectively a heavy-warhead, beam-riding version of the K-8 (AA-3 'Anab') air-to-air missile rushed into service in Vietnam in 1968. The Kh-23 was an improved Kh-66 with command-guidance, similar to the AGM-12 Bullpup.
The AGM-65 Maverick is an air-to-ground missile (AGM) designed for close air support. It is the most widely produced precision-guided missile in the Western world , [ 4 ] and is effective against a wide range of tactical targets, including armor , air defenses , ships , ground transportation and fuel storage facilities.
Television guidance (TGM) is a type of missile guidance system using a television camera in the missile or glide bomb that sends its signal back to the launch platform. There, a weapons officer or bomb aimer watches the image on a television screen and sends corrections to the missile, typically over a radio control link.
Kh-25 being mounted on a Russian Su-24 at Khmeimim air base for use against Syrian insurgent targets. The Kh-25/Kh-25M (Russian: Х-25; NATO: AS-10 'Karen ') is a family of Soviet lightweight air-to-ground missiles with a modular range of guidance systems and a range of 10 km. [1] The anti-radiation variant (Kh-25MP) is known to NATO as the AS-12 'Kegler ' and has a range up to 40 km. [2 ...
The AGM-114 Hellfire is an American missile developed for anti-armor use, [6] later developed for precision [7] drone strikes against other target types, especially high-value targets. [8] It was originally developed under the name " Heliborne laser, fire-and-forget missile", which led to the colloquial name "Hellfire" ultimately becoming the ...
In World War II, the U.S. National Defense Research Committee developed the VB-6 Felix, which used infrared to home on ships. While it entered production in 1945, it was never employed operationally. [23] The first successful electro optical guided munition was the AGM-62 Walleye during the Vietnam war. It was a family of large glide bombs ...