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1.  What are the following types of planes principally used for?

A.  Attack plane

B.  Fighter plane

C.  Patrol plane

D.  Reconnaissance plane

2.  What type of weapon has become the main armament on most of today's naval fighter and attack aircraft?

3.  What are the four basic parts of a guided missile?

4.  Answer BOTH questions below in the space provided:

A.  What is the high-explosive part of a missile called?

B.  What kind of high explosive may it be?

5.  What are the five types of guidance systems used by guided missiles?

6.  What naval missiles are included in the nation's strategic defense system?

7.  What is the purpose of an antiballistic missile?

8.  Answer BOTH questions below in the space provided:

A.  What is the Harpoon missile?

B.  What are its principal features and range?

9.  Answer BOTH questions below in the space provided:

A.  What is the Tomahawk missile?

B.  What are its capabilities?

10.  What are the three "T's" that provided the surface Navy with its principal antiair defensive capability during the 1970's and 1980's?

11.  How is the Walleye glide bomb guided to a target?

12.  What is ASROC?

13.  Answer BOTH questions below in the space provided:

A.  How do homing torpedoes operate?

B.  What are the two types of homing torpedoes?

14.  What atmospheric characteristics affect the flight of missiles and aircraft?

15.  What are the two basic types of missile trajectories?

16.  Answer BOTH questions below in the space provided:

A.  Describe a missile pursuit curve.

B.  How may a pilot evade such missiles?

17.  What kind of a trajectory is followed by most long-range ballistic missiles?