How do you attack te attack convoys?

[Ptroinks]

The skeets that don't find a target will self-destruct.

[Bullitt]

It explains it pretty well in one of the videos Genbrien posted. The sub munition detects a target with it's passive IR sensor and then uses the laser to profile the target. The laser it would seem helps to better profile cooler targets for engagement as well as to improve accuracy.

 

As far killing stuff is concerned, each munition has a solid core projectile that is fired downward at high velocity onto hardened targets allowing it to kill tanks. Around it's solid core is a "fragmentation ring", basically it is a ring that fires shrapnel in a spread pattern to kill soft targets like people, trucks, ect.

 

It is a "clean" munition unlike other types of CBU bombs. According to the datasheet Textron supplied on their website to ensure no unexploded munitions are left behind it incorporates 3 safety measures. The first and second measures are similar, if one of the sub munitions fails to find a target it will explode 8 seconds after release or 50ft above the ground. The third feature acts like time out device that will leave the device inert several minutes after hitting the ground.

Edited May 20, 2011 by Bullitt

[sobek]

As far killing stuff is concerned, each munition has a solid core projectile that is fired downward at high velocity onto hardened targets allowing it to kill tanks.

 

Not so much a projectile, the explosive is lined with metal in a way so that it forms a penetrator upon detonation. The design is called explosively formed penetrator (EFP).

[Tornado_Pilot]

Sobek, can you please explain the principle a bit closer...

[sobek]

Sobek, can you please explain the principle a bit closer...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator