laser-guided weapons

Cultural  

1. Weapon systems that use the information from a laser pointed at a target to guide the payload to the targets.

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Such weapons first came to the public attention during the Persian Gulf War, when the accurate hits of such weapons were widely publicized.

Example Sentences

When police reinforcements were sent to the aid of those posts, the official said, “the Taliban were using night-vision goggles and the police who were sent were shot by laser-guided weapons against which they could not defend themselves. The police have no night-vision goggles at all.”

From New York Times

He said the use of Reapers, which have hi-tech sensors and laser-guided weapons, would begin in Iraq "shortly" - the first time they have been used outside Afghanistan.

From BBC

It’s a new technothriller stocked with laser-guided weapons, gunboats, all flavors of machismo.

From Literature

The U.S. has withdrawn older iron bombs and replaced them with laser-guided weapons and other "smart bombs" of the kind that performed so well during the Gulf War.

From Time Magazine Archive