A CARGO UNIT FOR SUBMUNITIONS

摘要

A cargo device (1) carrying submunitions and incorporating guidance and target seeking functions. The triggering or actuation of the submunitions is determinable by means of a programming function on the ground or on board another weapon platform or via a link from the ground or said weapon platform. The submunitions are also actuatable by impact function. The programming function incorporates or interacts with mode determining devices that cause the cargo device and its submunitions to operate either in a penetrator mode, in which the submunitions are essnetially conjoined in a common griggering or actuation function, or in a separation mode, in which the submunitions sequentially leave the cargo device and thereby function with individual triggering or actuation functions that are independent from, or co-ordinated with, the triggering or actuation functions of the other submunitions.