Advanced Unitary Penetrator

The Advanced Unitary Penetrator (AUP) is the next-generation, hard target penetrator munition that provides a lethal capability to penetrate and defeat extremely hard multilayer underground facilities. Sharing an external appearance and flight characteristics with the 2,000-pound BLU-109, the AUP has an advanced heavy steel penetrator warhead filled with high-energy explosives that can penetrate more than twice as much reinforced concrete as the BLU-109. Performance is enhanced by a void-sensing Hard Target Smart Fuze that detonates the AUP at the optimum point in a target to inflict maximum damage.more...





[Edited on 29-11-2002 by mad scientist]

I assume the AUP would look someting like the original BLU-109.


An interesting video of a BLU-109 penetrator during a test :

www.missilesandfirecontrol.com...