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
It appeared to match the SH-250 unguided munition produced by Military Industry Corporation, a Sudanese arms manufacturer.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
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
The museum called Bellevue police, who went to the residence and found the rocket was a Douglas AIR-2 Genie, an unguided air-to-air rocket that is designed to carry a 1.5-kiloton W25 nuclear warhead.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 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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