Smart and smarter
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Aircraft bombs are becoming more effective during air campaigns due to the emergence of new technologies. The use of Global Positioning System (GPS) in combination with an inertial navigation system (INS) renders the bombs almost unaffected by bad weather and battlefield environmental factors such as smoke. The addition of Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits to standard `dumb' bombs increases the range to a maximum of about 25 km.
Publication Name: International Defense Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-6512
Year: 2000
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Honing airborne navigation
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International makers of aircraft navigation sensors are offering several types of navigation systems that promise accuracy, reliability and survivability of the platform. Current navigation systems are being presented as integrated systems to totally or partially include, inertial navigation system (INS), a Global Positioning System (GPS) and a terrain-referenced navigation system (TRN), or as enhancement kits. Among these is Honeywell's Guidance and Navigation Operation H-764G Embedded GPS/INS (EGI) set and the GPS-augmented version of the SNU-84-1 standard INS. Litton Guidance & Control Systems is also offering navigation systems based on ring laser gyros, such as the LN-92 third-generation Carrier Aircraft Inertial Navigation System, the LN-93 second-generation unit to meet the SNU-84-1 standard and the LN-94 for the F-15E Strike Eagle.
Publication Name: International Defense Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-6512
Year: 1998
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UAVs acquire a view to a kill
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Many armed forces across the globe, especially those with small budgets, limited manpower and a well defined and active threat, continue to endorse unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The effort to promote UAVs despite its potential flaws is made easier by recent substantial technological advances particularly in the payload area. Lighter, cheaper and more compact sensor packages for the likes of electronic warfare, chemical agent detection and meteorological measurements, are making small UAVs more capable and cost-efficient. The most recent believers of the UAV's value in combat are South African and Israeli armed forces.
Publication Name: International Defense Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-6512
Year: 1998
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