The BAP 100 (French:''Bombe Anti-Piste'' 100 mm, Anti-Runway Bomb) is a French
anti-runway cluster bomb
A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Commonly, this is a cluster bomb that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehi ...
developed in the mid-1970s, and which entered service with the
French Air Force
The French Air and Space Force (, , ) is the air force, air and space force of the French Armed Forces. Formed in 1909 as the ("Aeronautical Service"), a service arm of the French Army, it became an independent military branch in 1934 as the Fr ...
in the early 1980s. The bomb consists of eighteen submunitions, arranged in a cluster. Accelerated by an internal propulsion system, the munitions are designed to ensure total runway destruction in a single pass by aircraft.
The parachute of the BAP 100 is designed to withstand a maximum speed of 450 kts.
Forty of the munitions were used by the French Air Force during the
Ouadi Doum airstrike in 1986.
See also
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JP233
The JP233, originally known as the Low-Altitude Airfield Attack System (LAAAS), is a British submunition delivery system. It consists of large dispenser pods carrying several hundred submunitions designed to attack runways.
Design and developme ...
- A British anti-runway weapon
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Matra Durandal - A larger French anti-runway weapon adopted by the French Air Force
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DRDO SAAW
The DRDO Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon (SAAW) is a long-range precision-guided anti-airfield weapon developed by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). It is designed to be capable of engaging ground targets with high preci ...
- An Indian anti-runway weapon developed by the
DRDO
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is an agency under the Department of Defence Research and Development in the Ministry of Defence of the Government of India, charged with the military's research and development, headqu ...
References
External links
Air Munitions page on GlobalSecurity
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Aerial bombs of France
Anti-runway weapons
Military equipment introduced in the 1980s