laser-guided weapons

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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

The U.S. has withdrawn older iron bombs and replaced them with laser-guided weapons and other "smart bombs" of the kind that performed so well during the Gulf War.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

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

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee