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Sort of like the CBU-97, it's mission profile is ridiculously insane. First 10 sub munitions are ejected out. A parachute slows the downward movement of the sub munition carrier. A rocket then spins it up to a high speed where it starts flinging shaped charge skeet at vehicles in range. these skeet then detonate once they detect they are above the vehicle.

My reaction was the same as when I first learned about how jpl was going to get the curiosity rover down to the surface of mars with a rocket crane. "There is no way something that complicated would actually work."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU-97_Sensor_Fuzed_Weapon




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