BGT Shows Its Latest Guided Missiles at ILA 2000

ILA 2000: Some of the latest developments in German and pan-European missile technology, both for air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, can be seen at ILA 2000 on the exhibit of Bodenseewerk Geratetechnik GmbH (BGT).

Armiger features a neural network (top). Iris-T is a short-range replacement for Sidewinder.

To date BGT has delivered more than 30,000 Sidewinder missiles (for which it is prime contractor) to 11 European NATO countries. The new six-nation Iris-T, for which it is also prime contractor, is designed to offer considerably better performance than Sidewinder in terms of acquisition range, ECM resistance, and manouverability. Work began in early 1998 on the missile, which features a new type of imaging IR seeker and a combination of aerodynamic and thrust-vector tail control for maximum manouverability.

Also under development at BGT is Armiger, the proposed replacement for the HARM anti-radar missile. Armiger is an advanced anti-radiation missile featuring a Bayern Chemie-developed Mach 3 ramjet fueled by boron gas and compressed air, and a neural network self-learning guidance computer and auto pilot. These allow Armiger to fly rapidly to its target, even after the enemy radar has been shut down.

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