Warzone/The Drive: Laser-Guided Rockets Are Getting New Highly-Versatile Anti-Armor Warhead
The new warhead has multiple applications, further broadening the APKWS guidance kit’s flexibility.
The Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System, or APKWS, laser guidance kit designed by BAE Systems has been tested in a surface-to-surface role with a new highly versatile, multi-purpose warhead that is capable of taking on armor and other targets. The new warhead is provided by General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems. The test demonstrated added flexibility for not only the APKWS itself, which is most often employed in air-to-ground applications against more lightly armored targets, but also for all platforms that are capable of firing APKWS rockets.
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