Sensor Fuzed Weapon

[Floydivan]

This was everything i could get from the CBU-97/105 or Sensor Fuzed Weapon, but still is awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua3nLmE7Kow

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/futureweapons/photo/gallery/sensorfuzed.jpg

Sensor Fuzed Weapon
A much improved version of the standard cluster bomb, the sensor fuzed weapon (formally the CBU-97) uses "smart" bomblets to spread destruction across battlefields with precise strikes on multiple enemy targets. The CBU-97 is actually a bomb-like canister (above, inset) containing 10 cylindrical canisters (called "submunitions") that each hold four "smart" hockey puck-shaped "skeet" bomblets, giving a total of 40 bomblets per weapon.
As shown in the diagram above, just after the main canister is released, its skin opens ("A" on the diagram), deploying the 10 submunitions each with its own parachute. At a preset altitude, the parachutes are jettisoned (B) and rockets in the submunition canisters (C) lift them up and then spin to disperse the skeet bomblets (D). Infrared sensors in the bomblets then search for targets that are taken out with small powerful warheads (E).

[markod]

There was a feature about this weapon (among others) on the Discovery Channel, it was called "Future Weapons". It was a pretty cool piece.

[Muphlon]

You can see them in use in the B-52 video.

[GazB]

The Soviets had a version that used both an IIR sensor for hot points like engines but also MMW radar to distinguish armoured objects from other potential IR targets... like burning grass. They have sensor fused munitions in 122mm, 220mm, 300mm rockets and also bombs and tube artillery 152mm and above.

[OldRecon]

The Swedes produce BONUS and several other types of "intelligent ammuniton".

http://www.baesystems.se/bofors/stdpage.asp?Pid=31

Also I would regard sensor fuzed weapons as more than just anti armour artillery ammo as SADARM or BONUS.

I.e. with sensor fuzed weapons you'll also have to regard proximity fuzes in general for AA, mortars and ground support artillery, as well as sensor triggered mines with IR, radar, sound or trembling switches.

[lt tahoe]

The SFW is old--I remember seeing literature on it at an Army convention a decade or more ago.

[Dakota435]

The SFW is old--I remember seeing literature on it at an Army convention a decade or more ago.

Yeah. I remember reading about it in the magazine International Defense Review in the mid 80s.

[Sand Man]

They should invent bombs that do not harm children ... only people with guns in their hands.