تطوير الطارق يدعى بتطوير البلوك 2 ( block 2 upgrade ) ويشمل تزويده بمحرك Jet سيعطيه مدى يفوق 120 كم ونظام ملاحي جديد وسيبدأ الانتاج في الربع الثالث من عام 2020
Emirati, South Africa Plan Range Boost for Joint Weapon
Nov 18, 2019
Tony Osborne | ShowNews
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The Block 2 Al-Tariq 500 lb bomb, seen here, includes a jet engine.
An Emirati and South African joint venture building precision guidance kits for dumb bombs is working on a range extension program to be able to reach targets well in excess of 120 km.
The Al-Tariq company, a joint venture of Denel Dynamics and part of the recently established Emirates-based Edge defense holding, has already successfully produced more than 6,000 Al-Tariq guidance kits for both the Mk.81 250-lb. and Mk.82 500-lb. bombs, in a so-called Block 1 configuration, primarily equipping the United Arab Emirates Air Force
Dassault Mirage 2000-9, and soon its
Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 60s.
Now the company is working on a Block 2 version, says Theunis Botha, general manager of Al-Tariq, which delivers new navigation systems, a power pack to reduce the weapon’s dependence on the carrying aircraft’s electrical power, and a range extension using a jet engine.
“There is a big demand in extending the range of the weapon beyond 120 km,” explains Botha, although he would not say how much farther the improved weapon might travel.
“We are partnering up with an established supplier for the propulsion solution,” he added. “The long-term intention would be to source such systems from the region.”
There are around 60 permutations of Al-Tariq depending on the fitment of a wing kit, the size of the warhead and the different seeker options.
The number of seeker options will also be increased, and the company is looking at the addition of a new penetrator warhead and a new fusing system to support height adjustable airburst.
Al Tariq hopes to begin production of the Block 2 kits in Q3 2020.
The Al-Tariq bomb kits compete directly with
Raytheon’s Paveway,
Boeing’s
Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) and indigenous bomb kits like the Teber developed by Turkey.
“We have become the weapon of choice for the United Arab Emirates Air Force,” adds Botha, and that air arm’s success with the weapon has prompted other regional air arms to take notice.
One is driving the development of the power pack, allowing the customer to be less reliant on the aircraft’s OEM for integration. Aircraft integration can be done by an in-house team of engineers, although the company is working with
Lockheed Martin on the F-16 integration work. Both the Mirage 2000 and the F-16 appearing in the Dubai Airshow static display were both equipped with Al-Tariq bomb kits under the wings. Until the integration into the Edge holding, the Al-Tariq company was known as Barij Dynamics and before that Tawazun Dynamics. Under Edge, the company has been inserted into Edge’s Missiles and Weapons cluster with Halcon, a local producer of smaller precision-guided munitions.
An Emirati and South African joint venture building precision guidance kits for dumb bombs is working on a range extension program to be able to reach targets well in excess of 120 km.
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