12.05.2005, 17:41
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Serbia and Montenegro develops 'smart' strike weapons
By Seymour Johnson
A television (TV)-guided air-to-surface missile and a laser-guided bomb (LGB) have been developed by Serbia and Montenegro.
The TV-guided missile is based on the earlier GROM ('Thunder' in Serbian), a radio-command guided weapon developed during the 1980s and 1990s. This was based on the Russian Kh-23 (AS-7 'Kerry') command-guided missile, which was already in service with the Yugoslav Air Force.
According to one source, the TV-guided GROM-B was developed by the VTI (Vojno-Tehnicki Institut) during the late 1990s, while another dates the project to 1996. The designation 'GROM-2' has also been reported for this variant, but since examples of the earlier command-guided version have been seen with the marking 'GROM-02', this reported alternative designation for the new TV-guided weapon may be incorrect.
The nose-mounted TV seeker is based on that of the AGM-65B Maverick air-to-surface missile, which had been sold to the former Yugoslavia. During the 1991 war with Croatia, the Yugoslav Air Force retrofitted its SOKO G-4 Super Galeb aircraft with AGM-65B Mavericks. (...)
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