British Aerospace Royal Ordance's BROACH multi-warhead system has been selected by Raytheon as the main alternative payload for the AGM-154C unitary-warhead variant of its Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW), under development for the US Navy. A second successful test has been conducted, meanwhile, of the BROACH warhead for the US Air Force's Boeing AGM-86C conventional air-launched cruise missile (CALCM).
The tandem-charge BROACH was selected over kinetic-energy penetrator warheads offered by rivals, after evaluations conducted under the US Foreign Comparative Test programme. The Navy has no firm plans to procure BROACH-equipped JSOWs, however. The baseline unitary warhead for the AGM-154C is the BLU-111.
Source: Flight International