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CBU-97/B and CBU-105/B Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW), STS (United States), Bombs - Precision and guided munitions

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Title
CBU-97/B and CBU-105/B Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW), STS (United States)

Section
Bombs - Precision and guided munitions

Appearing in
Jane's Air-Launched Weapons

Publication date
Nov 05, 2009

Type
Infra-red guided bomb.

Development
The Sensor Fuzed Weapon system (SFW) was developed by Textron Systems in order to provide the USAF with a 'smart' area weapon capable of destroying battlefield combat vehicles, including all current and future main battle tanks. The SFW is packaged in a SUU-66/B canister, known as the Tactical Munition Dispenser (TMD), designed to release a wide variety of submunitions/bomblets. The SFW TMD is loaded with 10 BLU-108 submunitions. These submunitions, in turn, carry four projectiles. Each projectile has a side-mounted sensor to detect targets on the ground below. The projectile uses an Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) warhead for a top attack. In its original fixed tail fin configuration the SFW TMD is designated CBU-97/B. In March 2001 Lockheed Martin was contracted to supply a new enhanced accuracy TMD under the Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser programme (WCMD). WCMD incorporates an inertial navigation system coupled to moving tail fins. SFWs delivered in this configuration are designated CBU-105/B.Work on sensor-fuzed weapons began in the mid 1980s. Textron's SFW was the first of a new class of smart weapons that provides multiple-engagement capabilities against armoured vehicles, unlike the one-to-one precision weapons used in the 1991 Gulf War. The original baseline CBU-97/B projectile used a side-mounted passive infra-red sensor and a single slug EFP. After release, a timer was used for self-destruction if no target was found, and all detonation systems were de-energised making it safe to handle. The nominal footprint for this version was 60,000 m2 (15 acres). The CBU-97/B completed its

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