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By News Center
The Turkish Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation has
introduced a penetrating bomb, the nation's first concrete piercing
munitions, manufactured using domestic resources, Yeni Shafak
reports.
The penetrating bomb, commonly known as the 'bunker buster,' is
intended for use against both above-ground and subsurface targets
and employs sequential penetrating warhead technology.
An important foreign dependency in the defense industry came to
an end with the manufacturing of such products using domestic
means. Deliveries of penetrating bombs filled with materials
produced at the Energetic Materials Production Facility began in
September, with more than 100 deliveries to the air forces in a
short time.
New success has been achieved by the efforts to end foreign
dependency in critical areas in the defense industry.
The Energetic Materials Production Facility, which was
established using domestic facilities and national technologies
that became operational in 2021, began the production of chemicals,
such as RDX, HMX, and CMX, which are used as raw materials in
high-explosive ammunitions, rocket heads, and composite rocket
fuels, which are sometimes difficult to import. By doing so,
Turkiye has made a significant stride in the production of
next-generation explosives.
The Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation has already
started delivering penetrating bombs laden with domestically
created energetic ingredients in September. In a short period of
time, the company delivered over 100 missiles to the Turkish Air
Forces.
The plant, which was inaugurated by President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, was built with a $25 million investment and has a capacity
of 200 tons per year.
The penetrating bomb can be used with different guidance kits
with its high penetration ability even at low impact speeds and
angles, high efficiency against secondary targets with its
pre-shaped particles used in the pre-piercing design, being able to
be used against different target types, and programmable firing
times.
The bomb is efficient against targets and threats such as bombs,
ammunition depots, underground petrochemical depots, bunkers,
aircraft hangars, command and control centers, airfields, dams,
bridges, critical buildings, area targets, radar antennas, fixed
missile batteries, industrial facilities, and parked planes.
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