South Korean protection firm LIG Nex1 is revealsing its “Poniard” (Bigung) Korean-Low cOst Guided Imaging Rocket (Ok-LOGIR) at Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. The Low-Value Guided Imaging Rocket was a weapons system beneath improvement for the US Navy as a part of ONR’s Low-Value Imaging Terminal Seeker (LCITS) FNC. It transitioned because the weapon used within the Medusa Joint Functionality Know-how Demonstration with South Korea. LOGIR is particularly efficient in opposition to swarm assaults by enemies like small boats, as there’s no want for ongoing steerage. This system offered a precision guided 2.75 inch (70 mm) rocket to be used with present Hydra 70 methods in service, as such it has many similarities with the Superior Precision Kill Weapon System program.
The Protection Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) introduced that South Korea’s Bigung (Poniard) guided rocket system has handed a comparative take a look at by the U.S. Division of Protection’s (DoD’s) International Comparative Testing (FCT) for international weapons, paving the way in which for exports to the U.S. market. The Bigung, which has now the grow to be the primary such South Korean system to cross the Pentagon’s FCT, has a ‘fire-and-forget’ functionality, a said most vary of 8 km, and might carry a complete of 36 rockets in two separate launchers (18 rockets in every launcher). The weapon system hit all 10 designated targets and met all US necessities throughout an FCT session held in South Korea in October 2019 that was attended by US DoD specialists. The Bigung is actually a cellular coastal protection system developed by the Company for Protection Growth and South Korean defence firm LIG Nex1.
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The 70 mm (2.75 inch) guided rocket system is directed at countering Quick Inshore Assault Craft (FIAC), touchdown craft and touchdown autos of the DPRK (North Korea). As operated by the Republic of Korea Marine Corps (RoKMC), the Bigung is built-in right into a 6×6 Kia KM250 army truck that’s geared up with the required goal detection and launch management methods. At ADEX 2017, Republic of Korea Marine Corps was showcasing the Bigung system for the very first time. The principal distinction between the methods is that whereas APKWS makes use of terminal laser homing, requiring the goal to be ‘painted’ till influence, LOGIR would information to a place provided by the launching plane, utilizing imaging infrared within the terminal section making it a real fire-and-forget weapon.
The Low-Value Guided Imaging Rocket (LOGIR) was a weapons system beneath improvement for the US Navy as a part of ONR’s Low-Value Imaging Terminal Seeker (LCITS) FNC. The South Korean model, designated Ok-LOGIR developed by by the South Korean firm LIG Nex1 primarily based on the well-known Hydra 70-mm unguided rocket. The guided rocket has a weight beneath 17.5 kg (39 lb) and a size of 1.9 m (6.2 ft) with vary larger than 8 km (5.0 mi) with the (Low-Value Imaging Terminal Seeker (LCITS) utilizing imaging infra-red (IIR) imaging expertise with a further low-cost inertial correction unit. TADS (Goal Acquisition & Designation System) acquires goal knowledge in all mild circumstances. Fireplace management system is operable for multi-targets.
