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14-07-2024, 09:17 PM
US Air Force Issues First RFP for Weapon Specifically Intended for Ukraine. Proposal, issued on Wed, is for new aircraft-launched long-range weapon which the USAF has explicitly said is intended for use by Ukraine. (Extended-Range Attack Munition. US. Army reported US Air Force issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to develop a new aircraft-launched weapon on Wed July 10. The RFP was sent to 16 companies responded to an earlier Request for Interest (RFI) by USAF in January with proposals to be received >July 24.
The call to industry is for a system that is being called Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM). It explicitly says that project is intended to support Ukrainian defense requirements by providing an efficient affordable, autonomous long-range attack weapon.
This ERAM is a 500-pound (225 kilogram)-class munition - range@least 250 nautical miles (290 miles / 460 kilometers) @speed, no less than Mach 0.6 (460 mph / 740 kph). Munition’s size warhead wasn’t specified, other than say it should be a high explosive fragmentation with a level of penetrating capability & variable fuse settings.”
Army Recognition suggests Mark 82 unguided bomb could be considered a baseline for ERAM weapon. Mark 82 is a 500-pound (230 kg) filled with 196 pounds (89 kilograms) of tritonal (TNT/Al) high explosive.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/35759
The call to industry is for a system that is being called Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM). It explicitly says that project is intended to support Ukrainian defense requirements by providing an efficient affordable, autonomous long-range attack weapon.
This ERAM is a 500-pound (225 kilogram)-class munition - range@least 250 nautical miles (290 miles / 460 kilometers) @speed, no less than Mach 0.6 (460 mph / 740 kph). Munition’s size warhead wasn’t specified, other than say it should be a high explosive fragmentation with a level of penetrating capability & variable fuse settings.”
Army Recognition suggests Mark 82 unguided bomb could be considered a baseline for ERAM weapon. Mark 82 is a 500-pound (230 kg) filled with 196 pounds (89 kilograms) of tritonal (TNT/Al) high explosive.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/35759
