WordNet
n. a method of controlling the flight of a missile by devices that respond to inertial forces [syn: inertial guidance]
Usage examples of "inertial navigation".
He had been so busy with the computer and inertial Navigation System while they sat in the chocks that he had had no time to look around and become accustomed to this new cockpit.
Using an inertial navigation system updated by satellite navigation, the Wolverine missiles flew to preprogrammed bomb run initial points, then activated infrared and millimeter-wave radar sensors, looking for targets.
The chart table was interfaced through the BC-10 into the ship's inertial navigation system, SINS.
It is guided by its own inertial navigation computer until within fifty kilometers of its target, when it activates its own onboard radar, locks onto the largest radar target in its line of sight, and guides itself precisely on target.
Since the tanker had no radar, computer or inertial navigation system, there was nothing for Flap to do but sit.
I'll bet anything it has an inertial navigation system in there and the program froze somehow when it detected we'd reached the Pentagon's coordinates.
And it's got an inertial navigation system in it that may be malfunctioning.
The ship's inertial navigation system showed that the Mood Indigo had not risen a centimeter.
By the end of the first twenty-four hours they had restored enough inertial navigation systems and satellite tracking and positioning data links to activate the station thrusters, and with far more human intervention than normal they managed to kick Silver Tower into a low equatorial orbit.
This feature distinguished th KA-6D tanker from the bomber version of the A-6 The tanker was a fuselage designed to carry fuel dol and lacked the two radars, computer, and inertial navigation system of the bomber.
The pilot watched the numbers click off on his inertial navigation system, kept an eye on fuel, and watched forward for any change in the Russian bomber formation.
Back in PacAnt, he had a reputation for possessing his own private inertial navigation system, an internal sense that told him whether he was rising or falling underwater, and how fast.