🇬🇧🇺🇦 Paveway IV.

Great Britain intends to transfer Paveway IV aerial bombs to Ukraine, BBC journalist Jonathan Beale reported.

The Paveway IV is a kit that mounts on a 241 kilogram Mark 82 bomb, turning it into a high precision bomb.

The kit includes combined satellite laser guidance, which enables not only contact or delayed detonation, but also aerial detonation.

A development of the British company Raytheon UK, the bombs entered service with the British Army in 2008.

Costing about £30,000 each and weighing 226kg, the Paveway has four main parts – the guidance system in the front, a 500lb warhead in the middle (which can penetrate concrete) and, at the back, the tail section guides the bomb, with a smart fuse to control how it detonates.

GPS is one way the bomb can be guided to its target.

When the weapon is released the aircraft gives it target co-ordinates based on its own concept of where it is, and it is able to interface with the signal from GPS satellites and, therefore, fly itself to a very accurate grid reference.

The Paveway IV is what is called a dual-mode weapon so it can also be guided onto its target using a laser.

A laser beam with a code will be fired and the weapon will look for the reflected energy of that laser spot – which is being projected onto the target – and will home in on that.

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