BLU-109
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| General Information | |
| Designation: | BLU-109 |
| Type: | Penetration bomb |
| Country of origin: |
 United States
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| Manufacturer: | Lockheed Martin |
| Development: | 1985 |
| Commissioning: | 1990 |
| Working time: | In service |
| Technical specifications | |
| Combat weight: | 893 kg |
| Charge: | 243 kg tritonal |
| Length: | 2540 mm |
| Diameter: | 406 mm |
| Detonator: | FMU- 143 |
| Lists on the subject | |
The BLU-109 ( B OMB L ive U nit) is a hardened penetration warhead. It was first developed for free-falling bombs, but later also used for guided bombs or guided missiles. The development ran under the project name HAVE VOID and was carried out from 1985 by the Lockheed Missiles & Space of the US Lockheed company . It was first used by US Air Force aircraft.
Development, construction and use
The BLU-109 was developed to destroy massive hardened and buried targets ( English Hard and Deep Buried Targets , HDBTs for short) such as bunkers or hardened shelters with pinpoint accuracy. The requirement of the Air Force was the penetration of up to 1.8 meters of reinforced concrete and ignition by means of a delay detonator in order to detonate the bomb after the penetration within the target.
The housing of the BLU-109 was manufactured by the National Forge Company (NFC) and then shipped to Lockheed, who built the warhead. The insensitive explosive used was PBXN-109 .
The warhead serves as an upgrade kit for conventional or guided bombs, such as the Paveway in the variants GBU-24A / B Paveway III , GBU-24B / B Paveway III and GBU-27 / B Paveway III , the GBU-15 or for the guided missile AGM-130 .
In the meantime, the warhead has been developed into the BLU-109 / B , also known as the I-2000 . The B version has a 2.54 cm (1 inch ) thick case made of high-alloy steel, which is forged from one piece, and is filled with 243 kg of highly explosive Tritonal . It uses a mechanical-electrical igniter of the type FMU-143 . The B versions have not been manufactured by Lockheed since 1992, but by NFC. While the versions of the US Air Force are called BLU-109 / B, the US Navy variants are called BLU-109A / B.
The bomb can be used on the standardized 762 mm NATO suspension points of numerous combat aircraft.
use
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on BW-Flyer.de ( Memento from June 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Data on the BLU-109 on Globalsecurity.com
- ↑ Globalsecurity.com with specifications of the BLU-109
- ↑ FAS.org with information on the BLU-109 ( Memento from July 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Information on Janes about the BLU-109 (English, accessed on March 5, 2009)