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Gps-Guided Weapons and Military Equipment

Browse 13 weapon systems and military equipment entries tagged Gps-Guided, grouped by category with images, specifications, conflict context, and sources.

13 weapon systems

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Gps-Guided Munitions

Standalone missiles, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and guided or unguided explosive payloads.

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M982 Excalibur guided artillery projectile, 155 mm GPS/INS-guided artillery projectile, MunitionsMunitionsM982 Excalibur guided artillery projectile155 mm GPS/INS-guided artillery projectileSide: U.S.-led coalition and partner forcesUnited States and Afghan government forcesBuilt: Raytheon and BAE Systems Bofors / United States and SwedenM982 Excalibur is a co-developed U.S.-Swedish 155 mm precision artillery projectile that gives compatible howitzers first-round guided effects at extended range. In this catalog it is documented with U.S.-led coalition use in Operation Inherent Resolve and U.S. fielding and combat-use evidence from the War in Afghanistan.
GMLRS guided rocket, 227 mm guided artillery rocket, MunitionsMunitionsGMLRS guided rocket227 mm guided artillery rocketSide: UnspecifiedU.S.-led coalition and partner forcesBuilt: Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control / United StatesGMLRS is the GPS-aided, inertial-guided 227 mm rocket family fired from HIMARS and M270 launchers. In Operation Inherent Resolve it appears as the precision rocket munition behind U.S. coalition HIMARS fires, including documented rocket strikes supporting Iraqi and Syrian partner forces and later CJTF-OIR live-fire activity in Northeast Syria.
GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munition, 500-pound GPS/INS-guided bomb kit, MunitionsMunitionsGBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munition500-pound GPS/INS-guided bomb kitSide: UnknownBuilt: Boeing / United StatesGBU-38 is the 500-pound JDAM variant of Boeing's GPS/INS-guided bomb kit, built around the Mk 82 body for accurate air-to-surface strike. The Air Force fact sheet lists a 92.6-inch length, 558-pound launch weight, 14-inch wingspan, and an approximate $22,000 tailkit cost in fiscal 2007 dollars, while a 2025 QUICKSINK photo shows Airmen loading GBU-38s onto a B-2 Spirit for maritime-defense testing.
GBU-43/B MOAB, GPS/INS-guided massive ordnance air blast bomb, MunitionsMunitionsGBU-43/B MOABGPS/INS-guided massive ordnance air blast bombSide: United States and Afghan government forcesBuilt: Air Force Research Laboratory and Dynetics / United StatesThe GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, widely known as MOAB, is a very large U.S. GPS/INS-guided conventional bomb developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory with Dynetics support. Its only documented combat use was a 2017 U.S. strike on an ISIS-K tunnel complex in Afghanistan, where its blast effect was selected to collapse defenses and reduce risk to Afghan and U.S. clearing forces.

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Gps-Guided Support Equipment

Transport, logistics, recovery, command, engineering, and other enabling equipment.

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