Dispensed over the target area, a single production SFW with this new capability performed as predicted resulting in multiple hull-piercing hits and other secondary effects against multiple targets, which included stationary 36-ft Mini Armored Troop Carriers (MATCs) and 23-ft moving Key Largo Center Console boats. According to Lt. Col. Richard Mountain, Commander. 683d Armament Systems Squadron, responsible for SFW, "The test demonstrated the ability of a single weapon to detect and hit four targets. The multi-target engagement capability of SFW over water as well as land adds new capability to the warfighters' arsenal to rapidly halt enemy forces in both environments."

"Sensor Fuzed Weapon has been distinguished by a history of continuous improvement and exceptional performance. Adding a littoral capability to SFW's proven powerful performance over land reflects a logical and important progression in the mission utility of this weapon," said Tom Harrington, Textron Systems, vice president, airborne products. "We're quite proud that the world's first smart area weapon in production for land targets is now the world's first smart area weapon in production for littoral targets as well".

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 & maritime 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.