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Data for: Israel SPICE-based precision-guided air-dropped munitions

newspaper Zhuangao Guang-Wen Chen

According to the Jerusalem Post Web site July 4, 2011 report, Israel and Germany are jointly developing a kinds of smart missiles, may be equipped with Europe, “Typhoon” fighter sale to worldwide. This ground missile known as PILUM, is being considered by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the German Di He co-developed. The missile missile based on Rafael’s SPICE, SPICE has been reported standoff missiles can accurately hit targets 100 km.

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the end of the last century, countries around the world according to their actual launch of the different forms of precision-guided bombs. Israel as a world power is not far behind arms, developed a series of precision-guided bombs, one of the most characteristic is that the outside world as the development of precision-guided bombs to go the third way “smart and cost-effective precision strike” bomb series. The bombs have also been referred to as SPICE (“smart, accurate shooting, cost-effective,” the English acronym), which is an Israeli company Rafael between missiles and bombs between the high-performance precision-guided bombs. Accuracy of the missiles reportedly as high as 0.5 meters, 12,600 meters altitude from the time of placement of up to 60 to 100 km range.

Rafael in SPICE using the TV-guided missiles on TV is different from the previous guidance technology, to fully absorb the information technology advances in recent years, the original TV-guided technology and is generally used for cruising missile on the scene matching technology combine to make SPICE not only by the pilots flying through the TV image control, and can match their own goals Scene, complete terminal guidance.

originally developed “SPICE-2000″ in 2003 in the Israeli Air Force F-16 on the service by the acclaim. Rafael Company in order to make the application more flexible tactics, equipment, and later developed a folding wing extended range “SPICE-1000″, which makes this type of bomb as the United States, “paving the way” to form a series of bombs. At present, the military has offered to develop a more applicable to future Air Force small SPICE bomb. I believe the near future, we can see the SPICE-500, SPICE-250 appear, and which may be developed by Israel and the new German origin PILUM new missile.

by virtue of newly developed PILUM new missile is more than SPICE-based technology, improved from the. Europe’s “Typhoon” aircraft in the equipment of the missile, the pilot or navigator can watch the missile through real-time video, direct guidance targets, and its automatic target recognition and tracking capability so that it can hit very well hidden in the clouds, urban dust and smoke in the target. In addition, Rafael is also the bomb design a completely autonomous target acquisition system, so that it can not only hit the target pre-planning, you can re-adjust during flight to be targeted. Allegedly, the new missile development program in a few months ago, has decided, and in late June at the Paris Air Show unveiled a draft.

the missile’s main advantage is the ability to use two different systems bombing targets. For example, in future conflicts, if the enemy’s satellite navigation system is interference or not work, the operator can upload pictures to the target missile, the missile through the use of a unique scene matching algorithm to find the target and adjust the flight path to be destroyed. This greatly increases the flexibility of the missile attack, you can make in a complex battlefield environment more responsive.

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SPICE from an early stage to consider the long-range standoff strike capability, SPICE-1000 on its unique folding than the fixed-wing control wing of the SPICE-2000 glider with better performance and greater distance will undoubtedly put the pilot can keep throwing in a zone other than the target, thereby increasing the viability of the pilot carrier aircraft.

Because of autonomy, SPICE JDAM than some relatively longer range missiles more accurate, the Israeli Air Force also announced that the first generation of non-guided bombs, bombs, and the second took the laser or GPS guided bombs, such as JDAM, while SPICE does not require external support can destroy the target, should be regarded as the third generation of bombs.

from the type of bomb design can be seen more emphasis on its design flexibility, flight, its mission trajectory can be selected to set the target of the shape of the different attack angles. The same bomb targets from different angles, the effect is different, even if the targets of the same point, the effect will be different in different impact angles.

Israel, the United States introduced a large number of weapons and equipment, so it is mostly used for weapons development in the U.S. or NATO standards, making it the majority of the U.S. Department of users of potential suppliers of weapons. When the Israeli Rafael SPICE designed not only imitation of the “Popeye” and the aerodynamic shape, and adopted the “Popeye” technical standards, in particular basic copy of the “Popeye” data chain, which makes original equipment “sudden eye “almost no large aircraft missiles can be directly modified to carry SPICE. This raises a number of large-scale use of weapons in countries the U.S. interest.

jointly developed by Germany PILUM new missile, the missile is more important is that this theory should be stronger than SPICE, and therefore do not need to maintain the missile fuel and other dangerous goods, which make their use is greatly increased. Visible PILUM new missile is actually a comprehensive missile performance comparable with the general, and higher overall performance than the new JDAM guided weapons, I believe it will soon become the international arms market, a “dark horse.”

Europe, “Typhoon” aircraft as a common EU standard fighter, currently serving the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria and Saudi Arabia. The jointly developed by Germany’s PILUM new missile will be mainly for “Typhoon” fighter support, and thus its future sales market is expected to be extremely broad. However, as Israel’s neighbors and Arab countries, the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is also equipped with this type of aircraft, estimated that Israel may “prohibit the sale to Arab countries” included in research and development conditions. But there is no doubt that Europe’s “Typhoon” aircraft equipped with this type of missile in its precision ground attack capability will be significantly improved, which will undoubtedly promote its latest event was part of a series of chips.