Qased (Persian:قاصد meaning "Messenger") is a 2000-pound (900 Kg) Iranian developed smart bomb. This looks like one of the older-style TV/IR Guided Smart bombs. The new ones are guided by GPS.
A TV/IR-guided bomb has either a conventional television video camera or an infrared camera (for night vision) mounted to its nose. In remote-operation mode, the controller relays information through radio signals to a human operator, who is usually onboard the bomber plane. The remote operator relays commands to the control system to steer the bomb through the air -- the bomb acts something like a remote-control plane. In this mode, the operator may launch the bomb without a specific target and sight, and then pick up the target from the video as the bomb gets closer to the ground.
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