Cruise Missile Technology: How Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) Works
On the opening night of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the world watched in awe as grainy night-vision footage showed missiles cruising down the streets of Baghdad, turning at intersections like cars, before slamming into government buildings. These were Cruise Missiles. Specifically, the BGM-109 Tomahawk. Unlike their ballistic cousins which fly high into space, cruise […]