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    The BLG-120 is a Brazilian-made cluster munition that disperses 86 anti-tank submunitions over an elliptical area of 11,000 square meters. It is launched from aircraft like the AT-27 and can destroy targets from low or high altitude without needing precise aiming. The BLG-120 opens after release, scattering the submunitions using a linear hollow charge driven by a mechanical time fuse warhead located inside.

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    The BLG-120 is a Brazilian-made cluster munition that disperses 86 anti-tank submunitions over an elliptical area of 11,000 square meters. It is launched from aircraft like the AT-27 and can destroy targets from low or high altitude without needing precise aiming. The BLG-120 opens after release, scattering the submunitions using a linear hollow charge driven by a mechanical time fuse warhead located inside.

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    The BLG-120 is a Brazilian-made cluster munition that disperses 86 anti-tank submunitions over an elliptical area of 11,000 square meters. It is launched from aircraft like the AT-27 and can destroy targets from low or high altitude without needing precise aiming. The BLG-120 opens after release, scattering the submunitions using a linear hollow charge driven by a mechanical time fuse warhead located inside.

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    BLG 120

    http://pakistanthinktank.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=756
    http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~otranto/fab/bomba_lanca_granadas.htm

    (2)Brazil Four companies produce cluster munitions in Brazil. Avribras Aeroespacial SA


    and Britainite Industrias Quimicas produce the ASTROS family of surface-to-surface
    rockets with submunition warheads. These weapons have been exported to Iran, Iraq, and
    Saudi Arabia. The ASTROS multiple launch rocket system was used by Saudi forces
    against Iraqi forces during the battle of Khafji in January 1991, leaving behind significant
    numbers of unexploded submunitions. The company Ares Aeroespacial e Defesa Ltda
    produces the FZ-100 70mm air-to-surface rockets, akin to the Hydra M261 multipurpose
    submunitions. Additionally, Target Engenharia et Comércio Ltda. produces two types of
    cluster bombs (BLG-120, BLG-252) for the Brazilian Air Force and reportedly for
    export.

    Product developed and approved, the BLG-120 is a pump grenade launcher, with the load
    arms 86 antitank submunitions Mixed effect / mines. After the release, after a preset time,
    the pump has his jacket open. The opening of the coating occurs by the action of a linear
    hollow charge, driven by mechanical time fuze warhead located in the artifact.
    The dispersion of the grenades, centrifugation, is obtained as a function of rotation
    acquired by the pump after the launch, determining a pattern of scattering on the ground
    in a roughly elliptical.

    The BLG-120 is a munition to be employed against targets dispersed over a surface,


    allowing the attack on low or too high, high or low speed, without requiring too precise
    aiming. The BLG-120 aircraft will be used in AT-27, but can also equip AT-26 aircraft,
    F-5E and A-1.
    PUMPS grenade launchers BGL-120 BGL-204 BGL-252
    Launch speed (kt) 180-520 360-520 180-520
    Release Height (ft) 600 360-520 600
    Scattering of the grenade (m²) 11,000 5000 21,000
    Lethal radius of each shell (m) 15 15 15
    Drilling of grenades (mm) 120 120 120
    Overall length (mm) 2118 3287 355.6
    Diameter (mm) 292 360 400
    Span (mm) 510 580 595
    Total mass (kg) 120 300 324
    Fuse OGS-BLG (warhead) OGS-BFA (warhead)and
    ECM-BLG (tail)
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