Cruise Missile Stop Press!Our Complete Guide to Cruise Missiles cruise missile, low-flying, continuously powered offensive missile designed to evade defense systems. Although the German V-1 (1944) was a simple cruise missile, the cruise missile did not realize its potential until the 1970s, when the United States sought to had already gone to press when we received success news from Boeing on the Calcm Block IA and the Slam-ER. The former validated its GPS processing flight software, which enabled it to demonstrate its precision-strike accuracy during a US Air Force-conducted test at the Utah range in early May 2001. The Slam-ER, for its part, was launched by a US Navy F/A-18C at China Lake and flew a predetermined pre·de·ter·mine v. pre·de·ter·mined, pre·de·ter·min·ing, pre·de·ter·mines v.tr. 1. To determine, decide, or establish in advance: , seven-waypoint path, changing course at each waypoint way·point n. A point between major points on a route, as along a track. to avoid terrain hazards. Then the automatic target acquisition system (ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment ) cut in, providing real-time targeting cues to a second aircraft who's pilot selected the exact impact point using the missile's `stop motion aimpoint update' feature. This marked the first developmental flight test of the Slam-ER ATA. |
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