Guided missile in the context of "Hardpoint"

A fighter-bomber is a fighter aircraft that has been modified, or used primarily, as a light bomber or attack aircraft. It differs from bomber and attack aircraft primarily in its origins, as a fighter that has been adapted into other roles, whereas bombers and attack aircraft are developed specifically for bombing and attack roles.

Although still used, the term fighter-bomber has less significance since the introduction of rockets and guided missiles into aerial warfare. Modern aircraft with similar duties are now typically called multirole combat aircraft or strike fighters.

A nose cone is the conically shaped forwardmost section of a rocket, guided missile or aircraft, designed to modulate oncoming airflow behaviors and minimize aerodynamic drag. Nose cones are also designed for submerged watercraft such as submarines, submersibles and torpedoes, and in high-speed land vehicles such as rocket cars and velomobiles.

Title 50 of the United States Code outlines the role of War and National Defense in the United States Code.

• Chapter 1: Council of National Defense
• Chapter 2: Board of Ordnance and Fortification (repealed)
• Chapter 3: Alien Enemies
• Chapter 4: Espionage (repealed/transferred)
• Chapter 4a: Photographing, Sketching, Mapping, Etc., Defensive Installations (repealed)
• Chapter 4b: Disclosure of Classified Information (repealed)
• Chapter 4c: Atomic Weapons and Special Nuclear Materials Information Rewards
• Chapter 5: Arsenals, Armories, Arms, And War Material Generally
• Chapter 6: Willful Destruction, Etc., Of War Or National-Defense Material (repealed)
• Chapter 7: Interference With Homing Pigeons Owned by United States (repealed)
• Chapter 8: Explosives; Manufacture, Distribution, Storage, Use, And Possession Regulated (repealed)
• Chapter 9: Aircraft (repealed/transferred/omitted)
• Chapter 10: Helium Gas
• Chapter 11: Acquisition Of And Expenditures On Land For National-Defense Purposes (repealed/transferred/omitted)
• Chapter 12: Vessels In Territorial Waters of United States
• Chapter 13: Insurrection
• Chapter 14: Wartime Voting by Land and Naval Forces (repealed)
• Chapter 15: National Security (transferred)
• Chapter 16: Defense Industrial Reserves
• Chapter 17: Arming American Vessels (repealed)
• Chapter 18: Air-Warning Screen
• Chapter 19: Guided Missiles
• Chapter 20: Wind Tunnels
• Chapter 21: Abacá Production (omitted)
• Chapter 22: Uniform Code of Military Justice Repealed – see Title 10 of the United States Code
• Chapter 22a: Representation Of Armed Forces Personnel Before Foreign Judicial Tribunals (repealed)
• Chapter 23: Internal Security
• Chapter 24: National Defense Facilities (repealed)
• Chapter 25: Armed Forces Reserve (repealed/omitted)
• Chapter 26: Gifts for Defense Purposes (repealed)
• Chapter 27: Reserve Officer Personnel Program (repealed/omitted)
• Chapter 28: Status of Armed Forces Personnel Appointed to Service Academies (repealed)
• Chapter 29: National Defense Contracts
• Chapter 30: Federal Absentee Voting Assistance (transferred)
• Chapter 31: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (transferred)
• Chapter 32: Chemical and Biological Warfare Program
• Chapter 33: War Powers Resolution
• Chapter 34: National Emergencies
• Chapter 35: International Emergency Economic Powers
• Chapter 36: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
• Chapter 37: National Security Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants
• Chapter 38: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability
• Chapter 39: Spoils of War
• Chapter 40: Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Chapter 41: National Nuclear Security Administration
• Chapter 42: Atomic Energy Defense Provisions
• Chapter 43: Preventing Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
• Chapter 44: National Security
• Chapter 45: Miscellaneous Intelligence Community Authorities
• Chapter 46: Central Intelligence Agency
• Chapter 47: National Security Agency
• Chapter 48: Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction
• Chapter 49: Military Selective Service
• Chapter 50: Servicemembers Civil Relief
• Chapter 51: War Claims
• Chapter 52: Restitution for World War II Internment of Japanese Americans and Aleuts
• Chapter 53: Trading with the Enemy
• Chapter 54: Merchant Ship Sales (repealed/transferred)
• Chapter 55: Defense Production Act
• Chapter 56: Export Administration
• Chapter 57: Claims Under the Clarification Act
• Chapter 58: Export Control Reform

Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can be considered acts of shooting. When using a firearm, the act of shooting is often called firing as it involves initiating a combustion (deflagration) of chemical propellants.

Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field, in shooting sports, hunting, or in combat. The person involved in the shooting activity is called a shooter. A skilled, accurate shooter is a marksman or sharpshooter, and a person's level of shooting proficiency is referred to as their marksmanship.

An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors (gyroscopes) and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position, the orientation, and the velocity (direction and speed of movement) of a moving object without the need for external references. Often the inertial sensors are supplemented by a barometric altimeter and sometimes by magnetic sensors (magnetometers) and/or speed measuring devices. INSs are used on mobile robots and on vehicles such as ships, aircraft, submarines, guided missiles, and spacecraft. Older INS systems generally used an inertial platform as their mounting point to the vehicle and the terms are sometimes considered synonymous.

A main battery is the primary weapon or group of weapons around which a warship is designed. As such, a main battery was historically a naval gun or group of guns used in volleys, as in the broadsides of cannon on a ship of the line. Later, this came to be turreted groups of similar large-caliber naval rifles. With the evolution of technology the term has come to encompass guided missiles and torpedoes as a warship's principal offensive weaponry, deployed both on surface ships and submarines.

A main battery features common parts, munition and fire control system across the weapons which it comprises.

An anti-ship missile (AShM or ASM) is a guided missile that is designed for use against ships and large boats. Most anti-ship missiles are of the sea-skimming variety, and many use a combination of inertial guidance and active radar homing. A large number of other anti-ship missiles use infrared homing to follow the heat that is emitted by a ship; it is also possible for anti-ship missiles to be guided by radio command all the way.

Many anti-ship missiles can be launched from a variety of weapons systems including surface warships (also referred to as ship-to-ship missiles), submarines, bombers, fighter planes, patrol planes, helicopters, shore batteries, land vehicles, and, conceivably, even infantrymen firing shoulder-launched missiles. The term surface-to-surface missile (SSM) is used when appropriate. The longer-range anti-ship missiles are often called anti-ship cruise missiles. Several countries are also developing anti-ship ballistic missiles.

In aeronautics, a canard is a wing configuration in which a small forewing or foreplane is placed forward of the main wing of a fixed-wing aircraft or a weapon. The term "canard" may be used to describe the aircraft itself, the wing configuration, or the foreplane. Canard wings are also extensively used in guided missiles and smart bombs.

The term "canard" arose from the appearance of the Santos-Dumont 14-bis of 1906, which was said to be reminiscent of a duck (canard in French) with its neck stretched out in flight.