How do guided missles work?
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Heat, wire, radar, or laser. Heat seekers have a very sensitive optical camera in them that locks onto a heat source and commands itself to fly into it. Wire guided missiles like the TOW or ADCAP torpedo receive commands over a thin wire that tells them when to turn or whete to go. Radar is the new favorite, as there are many firms of it. You can use another radar to steer in a missile, or the missile itself can have an active, or in the case of HARM missiles, a passive radar receiver that tells it where the target is. Lastly, laser missiles like the Hellfire have a laser tracker in the head and track to a point that is “painted” in laser light by the firing vehicle.
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