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precision-guided munitions

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A weapon that uses a seeker to detect electromagnetic energy reflected from a target or reference point and, through processing, provides guidance commands to a control system that guides the weapon to the target. Also called PGM. See also munitions.
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The soldiers fired warning rounds before using precision-guided munitions to destroy the helicopter.
Coalition chopper shot down (Update) by Pajhwok Afghan News (Kabul, Afghanistan)
In future wars, precision-guided munitions would allow the Air Force to focus less on destroying targets and more on achieving desirable political outcomes with discrete applications of force.
John Warden and the Renaissance of American Air Power by Sherwood, John Darrell / Joint Force Quarterly
Also, new weapons and equipment were incorporated into the FA units during his tenure, including precision-guided munitions (PGMs), adding small-scale precision munitions to ground commanders' arsenals and complementing the Air Force's available large-scale precision munitions.
MG Peter M. Vangjel becomes the 37th Chief of Field Artillery by Fires
 
 
 
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