MBDA 社의 Bunker-buster HARDBUT 2차 시험 실시...

 

유럽 MBDA 社가 영국 국방성과 프랑스 DGA 의 지원을 받아 개발 중인 Bunker-buster, HARDBUT (Hard & Deeply

Buried Target) 에 대한 2차 시험발사가 지난 9월 14일 프랑스 남서부 Bordeaux 인근 Biscarrosse 시험장에서 실시

되었다는 소식 입니다.

 

HARDBUT 은 NGMWS (Next Generation Multiple Warhead System) 를 채용하였으며, 지난 5월 18일의 1차 시험과

이번의 2차 시험은 NGMWS 탄두에 대한 폭발 시험으로 모두 평지에서 rail track 을 이용하였다고 합니다.

 

또한 HARDBUT 의 외형 (airframe) 은 MBDA 社가 기존에 개발한 Storm Shadow 순항미사일과 동일한 것으로 알려

지고 있습니다.

 

지난 9월 14일 실시된 HARDBUT 2차 시험발사 모습과 제작사 발표문을 아래 붙입니다.

 

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MBDA Conducts Successful Demonstrations of New Bunker Buster Warhead

10/12/2010

   

The second test firing of the Hard and Deeply Buried Target (HARDBUT) Next Generation Multiple Warhead System (NGMWS) was carried out successfully at the Biscarrosse test range of DGA Essais de Missiles on 14th September 2010.

 

The HARDBUT Technology Demonstration Programme (TDP) is a successful warhead research programme jointly funded by the UK MoD and French Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) with MBDA UK as the Prime Contractor. The NGMWS is designed to defeat a wide range of targets such as command and control facilities, infrastructure and underground facilities including caves, reflecting current and potential future operations.

 

The firing was carried out using a representative missile airframe on the long rocket sled test track at Biscarrosse. The live Precursor Charge (PC) was detonated just in front of the massive concrete target and the inert Follow-Through Bomb (FTB) penetrated through and exited the rear face of the target, demonstrating a penetration capability significantly in excess of any warhead currently produced by MBDA. The trial was also designed to assess the robustness of the compact Ruggedized Electronic In-line Fuze (REIF) which will incorporate embedded smart fuzing algorithms. The target and trial set-up were designed to be operationally representative.

 

This trial builds upon the successful 1st trial conducted at the Biscarrosse test range on the 18th May 2010, where the novel concepts underpinning the NGMWS design were successfully demonstrated.

 

The TDP is being jointly managed by the UK MoD (DE&S) and the French MoD (DGA), supported by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Centre de Gramat (CEA Gramat), and successfully delivered by MBDA teams in the UK and in France, Thales Missile Electronics (TME), QinetiQ, BAE Systems Global Combat Systems Munitions (GCSM) and Fluid Gravity Engineering (FGE). The TDP has previously been independently audited by Cranfield University and assessed as delivering research of a world class standing.

 

The MBDA team has now twice successfully demonstrated the performance of this new warhead design by perforation of massive concrete targets, together with successful recovery of the inert FTB and fuze from the capture butt. This represents the successful conclusion of the second stage of this TDP, proving the warhead concept and enhancing MBDA's world leading capability in warhead design. A third and final proving trial will conclude the TDP research objectives.

 

 

  9월 14일 HARDBUT 2차 시험 장면 ⓒ MBDA