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wire-guided

adjective

  1. (of a missile) controlled by signals transmitted through fine wires uncoiled during the missile's flight

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“TOW” stands for “tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided,” which means the missile is fired only at targets that troops can actually see on the battlefield, so it’s very effective in open spaces such as deserts and large fields.

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Specialist architects and archaeologists used wire-guided robots to navigate the arena's complex drainage system - aiding their understanding of daily life in Rome as well as ancient hydraulic structures, researchers said.

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There is a boom and whoosh, and a wire-guided missile flies just over our heads.

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The technology uses an underwater acoustic projector, attached to a cable dropped from the ship’s stern to identify acoustic homing and wire-guided enemy torpedoes, service information describes.

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It passed machine guns, rockets and wire-guided antitank missiles to the rebels through the Jordan-Syria border.

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