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صعب تخيل العدد الذي ستحمله من البريمستونخبر جانبي
بدأ سلاح الجو الامريكي عملية تقييم جدوى دمج صواريخ جو-سطح Brimstone 2 على مقاتلات F-15E Strike Eagle
وفي يوم 2 يونيو الفائت ، حصلت شركة MBDA الصانع لصواريخ Brimstone 2 على عقد من سلاح الجو الامريكي بقيمة 140 الف دولار لاجل تحليل واختبار دمج الصاواريخ المذكورة على مقاتلات F-15E ، وهذا المبلغ سوف يغطي القليل من الاختبارات الاساسية مع طلعات الاختبار التجريبية فقط
وقد حصلت شركة MDBA على عقد بقيمة 24 مليون دولار مع البحرية الامريكية لاجل اختبار دمج صواريخ Brimstone على مقاتلات F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
MBDA Brimstone May Find Role In F-15E Armament
Jun 16, 2016 James Drew | Aviation Week & Space Technology
The U.S. Air Force has begun assessing the feasibility of integrating the MBDA, Inc., dual-guidance Brimstone air-to-surface missile with the Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle.
The British-based missile maker has been promoting Brimstone in America as a complementary weapon to the Lockheed Martin AGM-114 Hellfire and Raytheon GBU-53B Small Diameter Bomb II, particularly for the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Reaper, Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Lockheed F-16 Fighting Falcon and F-15E.
On June 2, MBDA scored a small but significant victory in its long-running campaign to secure a U.S. customer for Brimstone, with a $140,000 contract from Air Force Materiel Command’s weapons branch at Eglin AFB in Florida for “analysis and demonstration” of Brimstone 2 on the F-15E. The relatively small sum was disclosed in a contracting notice on June 10.
That amount of money would not likely afford more than a few basic laboratory experiments, let alone a flight test demonstration, but for MBDA it is at least progress. Facing constrained budgets at a time of war, the Pentagon has been careful not to approve too many new integration efforts that cannot be sustained long-term.
MBDA declined to provide any details about the work, but says it is pleased to be on contract with the Air Force as it also continues working with the Navy. Congress appropriated a total of $24 million from fiscal 2014-2016 to test Brimstone integration with the Boeing F/A-18E/F, with work ongoing at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California. As yet, no decision has been made about fielding it on the Super Hornet.
“On June 2, 2016, Air Force Materiel Command issued to MBDA, Inc., a study contract to assess the feasibility of integrating Brimstone to the F-15E Strike Eagle,” the company said in a prepared statement to Aviation Week on June 14. “MBDA, Inc., is pleased to support the Air Force’s assessment of integration alternatives.”
Today, the weapon is employed by the U.K. Royal Air Force from the Panavia Tornado GR4 and it will be fielded on the Eurofighter Typhoon by 2018 and, eventually, London’s MQ-9 fleet.
Brimstone was originally designed as a single-mode, anti-tank weapon with millimeter-wave radar guidance. The latest dual-mode variant adds semi-active laser guidance for going after small, highly mobile targets, such as those encountered in the Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya campaigns.
The MBDA Brimstone would add to the existing armament choices for the F-15E. Credit: BOEiNG
Brimstone 2 has an insensitive rocket motor and warhead to prevent unintended detonation, even if it is shot or damaged, and refreshed electronics. It can strike ground targets traveling at upwards of 70 mph.
“U.K. Royal Air Force fighter aircraft employed Brimstone in hundreds of combat shots in Afghanistan and Libya, with a one-shot/one-kill success rate over 98% for surgical strikes, salvo attacks against armor formations and time-critical missions in cluttered environments,” MBDA says in a product card distributed at a U.S. trade show in May. “Additionally, in RAF testing in 2014, Brimstone missiles with the latest [anti-small boat] software defeated two 700 hp speedboats with no damage to nearby neutral vessels.”
Brimstone is heavily promoted as a low-collateral-damage, close air support weapon, since that is the type of capability that the Air Force has been trying to transition from the Fairchild Republic A-10 “Warthog” to fast fighters like the F-15, F-16 and Lockheed F-35.
