beam riding

(Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam

beam rider n

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Whereas Denelss ultra-long range Mokopa is designed for a target that may be laser-designated by an external source, being out of sight of the launch platform, the company's 28.5 kg, 5000 metre range Ingwe (Leopard) employs laser beam riding. In pre-production ZT3 form it was used by South African forces in Angola in 1987 to destroy a number of T55 tanks.

When the Death-Dot Gets You, It's Got You: military technology took a major advance in the 1960s, when America's industry and armed services learned to designate a ground target with a laser illuminator, and develop a guidance and control kit that would allow a munition to home on to the reflected energy. However, semi-active homing was only the first guidance application for lasers. Later came missiles that ride laser beams

As the motor sheave and the laser beam riding it come into alignment, the beam nests perfectly inside each target's V-groove.

A BELT IN LINE SAVES NINE (TEN TIMES)

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