Next Generation Multiple Warhead System

Next Generation Multiple Warhead System
Next Generation Multiple Warhead System
Place of origin UK & France
Production history
Designer MBDA
Designed 2010

The Next Generation Multiple Warhead System, or NGMWS, is a weapon developed by MBDA to defeat hard and deeply buried targets (hence an alternative name, HARDBUT).[1][2]

The system includes a precursor charge and a follow-through bomb. Development was funded by the British and French ministries of defense.[3]

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