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The Rise of Guided Weapons During the 1939-45 war, Germany developed and brought into service the VI and V2 long range guided weapons (GW); they had also reached the drawing board stage in the development of an anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW), the XH7, by the end of that war. Since then, over the past forty years, G W have developed faster than any other form of weapon system. Now they influence international policies, strategy and tactics to an enormous extent. They may yet spell the end of manned strike aircraft and the current concept of the Main Battle Tank (MBT). The technology involved in GW electronic counter measures (ECM), and electronic counter counter measures (ECCM), is advancing at an ever increasing rate. Indeed, it can be said that the successful use of GW will be the decisive factor in a future war, as air battles in the Middle East and naval actions in the South Atlantic have indicated. Today, no member of the armed forces nor anyone involved in the development of weapons can afford to ignore a study of them. Definition of a Guided Weapon A guided weapon system may be described briefly as a weapon system in which the warhead is delivered by an unmanned guided vehicle. In most cases, the guided weapon systems available to the armed forces of the world are readily recognisable as such. The long range strategic rockets, the dogfight missiles carried by the aircraft, the short range anti- tank missiles, and the surface-to-air anti-aircraft defence systems are readily brought to mind by anyone interested in military equipment. However, it is prudent to avoid an unduly restrictive definition of the term guided weapon for there are several examples from the past of systems difficult to identify as guided weapons. This is also true of some current systems. In the future, the different types of weapon may be expected to expand considerably, particularly in the use of guided projectiles. To give some examples of such unfamiliar systems the case of the