paj@gec-mrc.co.uk (paj) (02/08/91)
From: paj <paj@gec-mrc.co.uk> I saw on a documentary last year (it may have been BBC Horizon or Ch4 Equinox) a range of new high-tech munitions, and would be interested in knowing if one of them is being used in the Gulf. The concept is known as "skeet". It is a cluster bomb or shell which ejects a number of spinning disks (hence the name) each of which contains an IR sensor and an explosive charge propelling an armour-piercing round. The skeet spins across over the target area until the IR sensor spots hot engines. Then the charge fires and the round hits the lightly armoured top of the tank.