laser-guided weapons

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

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

The Biden administration pledged Tuesday to commit an additional $2.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine, saying it will provide air defense systems that include gun trucks and laser-guided weapons to counter Russia’s relentless use of drones.

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There, the tail fins and the laser-guidance kits are attached to either end of the warheads, and free-fall gravity bombs are transformed into laser-guided weapons, which are then loaded up onto the bomb racks beneath jet fighters.

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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.”

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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.

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

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