Textron Improves Sensor Fused Weapon
Textron Systems has won a two-year, $130 million contract to upgrade air-to-ground sensor fuzed weapons for the U.S. military. The contract covers 300 CBU-105 cluster bomblets, and 900 BLU-108 submunitions for the AGM-154/B Joint StandOff Weapon (JSOW). The weapons are to enter U.S. Air Force and Navy inventories in 2002. The upgrade increases the bomblets' effective coverage area from 15 to 30 acres, and addition of an active laser "profiling" sensor and 16 outer fragments improves effectiveness.