unguided
Britishadjective
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(of a missile, bomb, etc) not having a flight path controlled either by radio signals or internal preset or self-actuating homing devices
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without a guide
guided and unguided hikes
Example Sentences
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“We have plenty of gravity bombs,” McBeth said, referring to unguided munitions.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026
Estimates as to the number of rockets and missiles in the group’s arsenal range from 120,000 to 200,000, including guided and unguided munitions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
Hezbollah holds a vast arsenal of mostly small, portable and unguided surface-to-surface artillery rockets, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
In 1954, Douglas Aircraft began work on “a small unguided nuclear-armed air-to-air missile,” according to Boeing.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
They went in a dream, unguided by owl’s hoot or bat’s squeak, but only kept together by the necessary pace which the sleeping forest imposed upon them.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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