My first impression was that this is an impressive munition that the Pentagon should be fast-tracking out to the force.
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It's difficult to determine if chemical weapons have been deployed, unless you can recover a munition that retains traces of agent, said Martin.
Accuracy, combined with a small lethal effects radius, and weaponeering options add up to a munition that can help to dramatically minimize collateral damage.
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Perhaps most importantly, the munition is estimated to have a 15ft lethal effects radius (that is really small), with the effects dropping dramatically thereafter.
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You can see what Swanson has achieved every time there is a competition for a new airborne jammer or advanced sensor or precision munition or tactical network.
The 122mm cluster munition rockets used by Syria bear the markings of the Egyptian state-owned Arab Organization for Industrialization and an Egyptian company called Sakr Factory for Development Industries.
The ability to control the strength of the beam provides for graduated lethality, and the use of light vice, an explosive munition, provides for low per engagement and life cycle costs.
Furthermore, anything modified for a munition is a munition.
The most determined effort to develop a small, cheap guided weapon, though, is the Forward Firing Miniature Munition (F2M2, or Spike missile), from the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, California.
The same limited logic informs Israel's strenuous objection to the Pentagon's intention to sell Saudi Arabia Joint Direct Attack Munition satellite-guided "smart bombs, " or JDAMS. The government claims that while it has no quarrel with the Saudis, it fears for the stability of the regime.
Evidence we have seen suggests that Syrian government forces delivered the 122mm cluster munition rockets containing submunitions using a BM-21 Grad multi-barrel rocket launcher, a truck-mounted system capable of firing 40 rockets nearly simultaneously with a range of 4 to 40 kilometers (2.5 to 25 miles).
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