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The most determined effort to develop a small, cheap guided weapon, though, is the Forward Firing Miniature Munition (F2M2, or Spike missile), from the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, California.
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The chief of naval operations says stocks of precision- guided munitions -- the wonder-weapon of choice in Kosovo and Iraq -- are "below the current war fighting requirement, " which poses a "major risk" to U.S. forces.
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To ensure the weapon hits the target, the system can be guided by GPS, inertially, or by laser designation.
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This kind of LEMP weapon could be theoretically deployed as an air defense system to neutralize conventional (IR guided or radar guided) missiles, but could also be used to neutralize UAVs, which are dependent on electronic systems.
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