Armament Air-Sol Modulaire

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Armament Air-Sol Modulaire

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General Information
Type Steering bomb kit
Manufacturer Sagem Défense Sécurité
development around 2005
Commissioning 2006
Unit price 250,000 euros
Technical specifications
length 3100 mm (250 kg version)
Combat weight 340 kg
drive alternatively solid rocket motor
Range > 50 km
Furnishing
Target location INS / GPS , DSMAC, laser finder
Warhead for 125-1000 kg bombs
Weapon platforms Dassault Rafale , Dassault Mirage F1 , Dassault Mirage 2000
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The Armament Air-Sol Modulaire ( AASM ) is a guided bomb kit developed by Sagem Défense Sécurité for the French Air Force . The first flight tests were carried out with a GPS-equipped AASM prototype in December 2006 in southwest France. You can use the AASM not only as a guided glide bomb, but also as an air-to-ground missile if you equip it with a solid rocket motor. French or American Mk 80 series can be used as bomb bodies. In 2010 France ordered 3,400 kits of this type. It was used in Afghanistan and Libya .

Versions of the control

  • SBU-38 ("Smart Bomb Unit"): Steering takes place exclusively via INS / GPS . This was the first available variant of the control and has a scattering circle radius (CEP) of ten meters.
  • SBU-64: In this variant, which was introduced later, the INS / GPS control was supplemented by an imaging infrared search head. With the help of image recognition algorithms, this compares the sighted target area with a saved image of the target in the final phase of the bomb's flight. This enables a more precise approach and meeting of the same. The CEP here is one meter.
  • SBU-54: The variant with a seeker head for targets marked with a laser as a supplement to the INS / GPS finder has been in use since 2012. Combat of moving targets is also possible with this seeker head.

Users

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ France orders 3,400 Sagem (Safran group) AASM Inertial / laser-guided AASM air-to-ground weapons . aeromorning.com. February 18, 2010. Archived from the original on January 14, 2017. Retrieved on October 23, 2011.

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