Guided and Unguided Weapons

Air Power is implicitly tied to the available weapons technology base. No more is this visible in the area of guided weapons, which have evolved very rapidly over the last three decades, and can be expected to further evolve in the future. The large scale adoption of late generation Russian guided munitions in the Asia-Pacific-Indian region has had a large impact on the relative strategic position of regional nations. This website will post a selection of relevant articles, submissions and papers.

Air to Surface Weapons Articles

Australian Aviation - September 1981 - Laser Guidance

Australian Aviation - June/September 1983 - Antishipping Weapons and Naval Air Defence

Australian Aviation - September 1984 - Precision Guided Munitions - The New Breed (Assault Breaker)

Australian Aviation - March 1988 - MDC AGM-84A Harpoon and AGM-84E SLAM

Australian Aviation - May 1988 - Rockwell AGM-130A/B and Northrop AGM-136A Tacit Rainbow

Australian Aviation - July 1992 - Desert Storm - Precision Guided Munitions

Australian Aviation - Revised 1998 - The GBU-28 Bunker Buster (Mirror@F-111.net , German Translation)

Air Power International - Vol.4. No.1 1998 - The AGM-88 HARM, Mirror@F-111.net

Australian Aviation - December 1996 - AGM-142E Raptor - The RAAF's New Standoff Weapon, Mirror@F-111.net

Australian Aviation - August-December 1996, 1997 - GPS Guided Weapons Part I through V, Mirror@F-111.net

Australian Aviation - June 1996 - The Agile Gliding Weapon (AWADI/BAeA Aussie Glidebomb), Mirror@F-111.net

Australian Aviation - June 1997 - Matra/BAe ALARM + Matra Armat

Australian Aviation - December 2002/January-February 2003 - JDAM Matures - Parts 1 and 2

Australian Aviation - July 2004 - Asia's Advanced Precision Guided Munitions

Air Power Australia - July 2005 - Warship Vulnerability

Air Power Australia - July 2006 - Dawn of the Smart Bomb

Air & Space Power Chronicles, Maxwell AFB - 1995 - The Electromagnetic Bomb - a Weapon of Electrical Mass Destruction - Russian Translation Part 1, Russian Translation Part 2, Mirror@GlobalSecurity.org

Air & Space Power Chronicles, Maxwell AFB - July 2000 - EXPANDING THE ENVELOPE - Stealth and Other Strike Roles

Air Power Australia - January 2007 - GBU-39/40/42 Small Diameter Bomb

Air Power Australia - January 2007 - Regional Precision Guided Munitions

Air Power Australia - April 2007 - Maritime Strike using the F-22A Raptor

Defence Today - January/February 2008 - Chemical and Biological Weapons [PDF]

Cruise Missile Related Articles

Australian Aviation - September/November 1985 - Cruise Missiles (AGM-86/RGM-109)

Australian Aviation - July 1988 - Maritime Strike - The Soviet Perspective

Australian Aviation - November 1995 - Tomahawks, Submarines and the F-111 , Mirror@F-111.net

Australian Aviation - September 2000 - Sunburns, Yakhonts, Alfas and the Region [PDF]

Defence Today - September 2004 - AIR 5418 Cruise Missiles [PDF]

Australian Aviation - October 2004 - Defeating Cruise missiles [PDF]

Australian Aviation - December 2004 - Cruise Missile Options for Australia (AIR 5418) [PDF]

Air Power Australia - July 2005 - Early Tomahawk Variants - BGM/RGM/AGM-109 Tomahawk/GCLM/MRASM

Radio 2 - National - 02-March-2006 - JASSM Introduction - Interview

Air to Air Weapons Articles

Australian Aviation - March 1982 - Heat-Seeking Missile Guidance

Australian Aviation - June 1982 - Active and Semi-Active Radar Missile Guidance

Australian Aviation - September 1986 - Quo Vadis - AMRAAM?

Australian Aviation - July 1987 - Evading the Guided Missile

Australian Aviation - April 1994 - The Sidewinder Story - The Evolution of the AIM-9 Missile , Mirror@FTA

Australian Aviation - June 1994 - BAe Active Skyflash and AIM-120 AMRAAM

Australian Aviation - April 1997 - Fourth Generation AAMs - The Rafael Python 4 , Mirror@FTA

Australian Aviation - 1997 - Fourth Generation AAMs - The Matra-BAe AIM-132 ASRAAM

Air Power International - Vol.4. No.4 1998 - Matra-BAe AIM-132 ASRAAM - The RAAF's New WVR AAM

Defence Today - May 2005 - Missiles in the Asia-Pacific [PDF]

Air Power Australia - March 2008 - The Russian Philosophy of Beyond Visual Range Air Combat

Air Defence Weapons Articles

Australian Aviation - July 1989 - Man Portable Surface-Air Missiles

Australian Aviation - December 2003 - Man Portable Missiles vs Airliners (AIAA Mirror, aircraft-survivability.com Mirror)

Australian Aviation - June/July/August 1993 - Desert Storm - The Electronic Battle , Mirror@FTA

Australian Aviation - October 1995 - 76N6 Clam Shell Acquisition Radar Revealed

Australian Aviation - October 2003 - Asia's New SAMs Pt.1

Australian Aviation - November 2003 - Asia's New SAMs Pt.2

Defence Today - June 2004 - SEA 4000 - The Air Warfare Destroyer (PDF)

Australian Aviation - March 2005 - Are Helicopters Vulnerable [MANPADS/RPG]

Weapon Targeting Technology Articles

Australian Aviation - September 1982 - Integrated Flight and Fire Control (IFFC Firefly)

Australian Aviation - November 1989/December 1990 - Optical Warfare - The New Frontier

Australian Aviation - June 1997 - SAR/GMTI - Revolution in Bombing Technology

Air Power International - August 1998 - Helmet Mounted Sights and Displays

Australian Aviation - Series 1999 - Quo Vadis, RAAF? Part 1 The Strategic Context Part 2 The ADF's Alternatives

Australian Aviation - Series 1999 - Deedle, Deedle, Deedle, BANG! The Paradigm Shift in Air Superiority

Australian Aviation - Series 1999 - Measures of Fighter Capability Parts 1 - 3

Australian Aviation - June 2000 - Maritime Deterrence, Submarines and Air Power

Australian Aviation - June 2002 - Active Electronically Steered Arrays - A Maturing Technology

Australian Aviation - April 2003 - A Heavy Bomber Rennaissance?