Maritime patrol aircraft/Related Articles: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:17, 14 February 2011

Air-to-surface missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-65 Maverick [r]: Add brief definition or description
Anti-shipping missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-84 Harpoon [r]: Add brief definition or description
Depth charge [r]: Early antisubmarine weapons consisting of a large explosive charge and a fuze that was set for a given depth; free-falling and formed a barrage with no guidance; later models had streamlined cases for faster sinking ^[e]
Gravity bomb [r]: Add brief definition or description
Guided bomb [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joint Direct Attack Munition [r]: Add brief definition or description Variant being developed to allow high-altitude torpedo drops
Torpedo [r]: A naval weapon that travels underwater, using its own propulsion, to attack its target, minimally with onboard mechanisms to keep it on a straight course. Modern torpedoes are underwater guided missiles that can track their target and adjust their course to hit it ^[e]
- Mark 46 (torpedo) [r]: U.S. lightweight antisubmarine torpedo, air-dropped, fired from surface ship tubes, carried by RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC; being replaced by Mark 50 (torpedo) ^[e]
- Mark 50 (torpedo) [r]: Add brief definition or description

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 ===Avionics===
 ====Antisubmarine====