BLG 120

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(2)Brazil Four companies produce cluster munitions in Brazil. Avribras Aeroespacial SA

and Britainite Industrias Quimicas produce the ASTROS family of surface-to-surface
rockets with submunition warheads. These weapons have been exported to Iran, Iraq, and
Saudi Arabia. The ASTROS multiple launch rocket system was used by Saudi forces
against Iraqi forces during the battle of Khafji in January 1991, leaving behind significant
numbers of unexploded submunitions. The company Ares Aeroespacial e Defesa Ltda
produces the FZ-100 70mm air-to-surface rockets, akin to the Hydra M261 multipurpose
submunitions. Additionally, Target Engenharia et Comércio Ltda. produces two types of
cluster bombs (BLG-120, BLG-252) for the Brazilian Air Force and reportedly for
export.

Product developed and approved, the BLG-120 is a pump grenade launcher, with the load
arms 86 antitank submunitions Mixed effect / mines. After the release, after a preset time,
the pump has his jacket open. The opening of the coating occurs by the action of a linear
hollow charge, driven by mechanical time fuze warhead located in the artifact.
The dispersion of the grenades, centrifugation, is obtained as a function of rotation
acquired by the pump after the launch, determining a pattern of scattering on the ground
in a roughly elliptical.

The BLG-120 is a munition to be employed against targets dispersed over a surface,

allowing the attack on low or too high, high or low speed, without requiring too precise
aiming. The BLG-120 aircraft will be used in AT-27, but can also equip AT-26 aircraft,
F-5E and A-1.
PUMPS grenade launchers BGL-120 BGL-204 BGL-252
Launch speed (kt) 180-520 360-520 180-520
Release Height (ft) 600 360-520 600
Scattering of the grenade (m²) 11,000 5000 21,000
Lethal radius of each shell (m) 15 15 15
Drilling of grenades (mm) 120 120 120
Overall length (mm) 2118 3287 355.6
Diameter (mm) 292 360 400
Span (mm) 510 580 595
Total mass (kg) 120 300 324
Fuse OGS-BLG (warhead) OGS-BFA (warhead)and
ECM-BLG (tail)
Similar BELOUGA-MATRA Rockey pump