Guided Munition and Optical Assembly with an Annular Folded Optic having an Interface with a Deployable Segment

A guided munition comprising:

• a munition body;
• at least one wing connected to the munition body;
• and
• an annular folded optic (AFO), wherein at least a first portion of the AFO is, at least partially, in or on the wing.

A computer program product including one or more non-transitory machine-readable mediums encoded with instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause a process to detect electromagnetic radiation moving through an annular folded optic (AFO) to image a scene, wherein at least one image of the scene is to be provided to a target detection protocol or guidance protocol, the instructions comprising:

• receive, at an imager, electromagnetic radiation that has moved through the AFO, wherein at least a portion of the AFO is positioned on a wing on the guided munition;
• generate an image with the imager;
• and
• provide the image to one of (i) a target detection protocol that detects a target in the image or (ii) a guidance protocol that guides the guided munition toward the target in the image.