The Sensor Fuzed Weapon is a smart, air-to-ground, direct attack munition that can detect and defeat a wide variety of combat targets. Combat proven initially on April 2, 2003 in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the SFW received world-wide recognition after defeating multiple Iraqi tanks in a single aircraft pass that halted an Iraqi armored column from advancing on U.S. military forces. Subsequent operations confirmed the high military value of this unique weapon.

Filming of the Future Weapons program brought the Discovery Channel's crew to Textron Systems' division headquarters in Wilmington, Massachusetts, to speak with several people involved with SFW's design and development. The crew also worked in conjunction with the Air Force by conducting interviews with key USAF personnel and filming weapons testing while on site at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The Power of Fear will be hosted by former Navy SEAL Richard Machowicz.

About the Sensor Fuzed Weapon

Known as CBU-97 and CBU-105, Textron Systems' Sensor Fuzed Weapon is the first and only combat-proven smart area weapon of its kind in U.S. Air Force inventory designed to accurately detect and defeat multiple stationary or moving land threat targets. SFW's demonstrated lethality against armor makes CBU-105 an important force-multiplying capability for the warfighter. Its 40 smart Skeet warheads have both a hard and soft target capability and are equipped with two self-destruct modes and a self-neutralization feature to leave no hazardous unexploded ordnance on the ground, resulting in a clean battlefield.