Brimstone Precision Guided Missile
Overview
Capabilities
- Launched from fixed-wing aircraft. Easily integrated on a variety of manned and unmanned launch platforms.
- Two attack modes:
- Direct attack mode allows aircrew to engage individual targets utilizing onboard sensors and targeting systems.
- Indirect attack mode allows aircrew to autonomously release weapons to a specified area where the radar millimeter wave seeker using advanced target algorithms locates and attacks specific target sets.
- Large carriage and release envelope:
- Very low to high altitude
- Subsonic to transonic speeds
- Release throughout fighter aircraft flight envelope
- Light-weight, compact design provides maximum stowed kills.
- Large engagement footprint
- Off-boresight, all-weather capability holds a large area at risk.
- Smart, MIL-STD 1760 launcher facilitates aircraft integration.
- Tandem high-explosive warhead defeats explosive reactive armor (ERA).
For more information, read the Brimstone 2 overview.
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