It has a terminal guidance system based on an infrared homing seeker, which identifies the target during the final stage of flight.
22.
It has a solid-fuel engine, and can engage the target independently from the firing aircraft with its passive Infrared homing system.
23.
The infrared homing method of the Sidewinder was retained, as the missile was to be used against targets which emitted an infrared signature.
24.
During the bunt, the nose cone is jettisoned to allow a high resolution thermographic camera ( Infrared homing ) to observe the target area.
25.
Inaccuracy, primitive beam-riding guidance and lack of infrared homing or a proximity fuze in the Mk 1 made it of limited value.
26.
The AIM-9 Sidewinder heat-seeking ( infrared homing ) short-range missile was developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s.
27.
Once tracking has been started, targeting information is automatically handed off to infrared homing air-to-surface missiles or laser-guided bombs.
28.
The missile features an advanced electro-optical infrared homing seeker which scans the target area for hostile aircraft, then locks-on for terminal chase.
29.
SLAM missile uses an inertial navigation system, which is supplemented by Global Positioning System ( GPS ) input, and it also uses Infrared homing terminal guidance.
30.
After it is fired, the missile guides itself by some combination of gyroscopes and accelerometers, GPS, organic active radar homing, and infrared homing optics.
