AUSA Global: US Army to rationalise shoulder-launched munitions
Plans are being proposed by the US Army’s PEO Ammunition that will reduce the number of individual shoulder-launched munitions (SLMs) from five to just two.
The two remaining systems will be the Carl Gustaf 84mm MAAWS squad anti-personnel weapon and a multipurpose anti-structure and light armour Individual Assault Munition (IAM).
Speaking at AUSA Global in Huntsville, project manager Col Richard Hornstein outlined in a briefing how the Bunker Defeat Munition (BDM); AT4; AT4-CS; and M72 LAW would be reduced to one multipurpose anti-structure and light armour system.
Industry will be asked to provide a solution. Hornstein said that
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