UK orders Tactical Penetrator warhead for Paveway Ⅳ

摘要

Raytheon UK has been awarded a GBP25 million (USD38.5 million) contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to develop, qualify, manufacture, and integrate a new Tactical Penetrator (TP) warhead to equip the Paveway $1 dual-mode precision-guided weapon carried by the UK Royal Air Force's (RAF's) Typhoon FGR.4 multirole combat aircraft. The contract also includes the manufacture of approximately 100 TP modular warhead rounds and integration with the standard Paveway $1 Mk Ⅱ round.