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Next Generation Multiple Warhead System
The Next Generation Multiple Warhead System, or NGMWS, is a weapon developed by MBDA MBDA is a European multinational developer and manufacturer of missiles.MBDA Inc. US Division Co ...
to defeat hard and deeply buried targets (hence an alternative name, HARDBUT). The system includes a precursor charge and a follow-through bomb. Development was funded by the British and French ministries of defence.


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Bunker Buster
A bunker buster is a type of munition that is designed to penetrate hardened targets or targets buried deep underground, such as military bunkers. Armor piercing shells Germany Röchling shells were bunker-busting artillery shells, developed by the German engineer August Cönders, based on the theory of increasing sectional density to improve penetration. They were tested in 1942 and 1943 against the Belgian Fort d'Aubin-Neufchâteau. Aircraft delivered bombs World War II Germany In World War II the Luftwaffe developed a series of unguided rocket-propelled armor-piercing bombs for use against shipping and fortifications. United Kingdom In World War II, the British designer Barnes Wallis, already famous for inventing the bouncing bomb, designed two bombs that would become the conceptual predecessors of modern bunker busters: the five tonne Tallboy and the ten tonne Grand Slam. These were "Earthquake" bombs—a concept he had first proposed in 1939. The designs were ver ...
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MBDA
MBDA is a European multinational developer and manufacturer of missiles.MBDA Inc. US Division Corporate Page
It was created in December 2001 after the of the main French, and missile systems companies. They were the missile businesses of