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The EXTRA rocket is developed and marketed under
cooperation between IMI and IAI/MLM. TEquipped with a GPS/INS guidance
system, the rocket achieve high accuracy at twice the range of
standard MLRS (20 to 150 kilometers) carrying twice the warhead weight
(warhead of 150 kg compared to 60 kg of standard MLRS). The 430 kg
rocket is designed for carriage by a wide range of launching
platforms, including the standard two six barrel MLRS pods which will
be able to take four EXTRA rockets in two launcher/container pods.
The rocket uses an aft section fitted with stabilizing
fins and a large solid rocket motor. The warhead is built as a modular
compartment, designed to carry various types of submunitions or a
unitary warhead. For example, EXTRA can carry up to 400 AT/AP Bomblets,
scatterable mines, anti-runway munitions and similar loads. The fin
mounted control section stores the guidance and control avionics,
driving four flight control surfaces for trajectory shaping. The
system was developed by IAI as a modular Kit. By adjusting the
ballistic trajectory of the rocket to compensate for wind drift and
other meteorological effects the system improves the accuracy of the
rocket by 4 times the average of unguided MLRS rocket. |
