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Bonus 155 mm
Bonus 155 mm artillery ammunition.
Bonus, a 155 mm artillery-launched fire-and-forget shell, combats any armoured vehicle from MBTs to AFVs and including self propelled artillery.
It is designed
in accordance with JBMOU and is compatible with most existing artillery guns. At the gun site it is handled just like any standard artillery shell.
The shell body
, which carries two sensor-fuzed submunitions, is provided with a basebleed, giving ranges out to 35km. Each of the sensor-fuzed submunitions can defeat a target.
Once Bonus
is launched the warhead searches a 200 m diameter area. Immediately a target is detected within the footprint, it is destroyed by an EFP (Explosively Formed Penetrator) punching through its roof and devastating its interior.
Bonus detects
and identifies targets by processing images received from IR sensors ranging over several frequencies and then combining the results with data received from a laser radar (LADAR).
By measuring
the target profile and then comparing it with the results received from the IR sensors, combat-worthy targets can be separated from false ones. This combination of sensors also means that Bonus is effective against targets provided with both passive and reactive protection systems.
