Raytheon is in talks with both the Navy and Air Force on possible fielding of the scaleable weapon. Both warheads would be contained in the same cruise missile, effectively blasting a hole into the target and allowing other weapons to hit the target once it’s penetrated. with a 500-pound follow-on warhead, said Douglas Hayner, a senior manager in Raytheon’s strike product shop. A standard precursor charge would be around 650 pounds. Unlike weapons, such as massive earth penetrators that rely on kinetics largely to burrow into concrete and hardened surfaces, the tandem warhead system couples a precursor charge (500 pounds of high explosive in the recent test) with a narrow follow-on warhead that speeds through the initial blast to hit inside a hard target. In a static test on a 300-ton target, the Tandem Warhead System managed to penetrate 19.5 feet of the target, said Harry Schulte, Raytheon’s VP for strike products. They cited its possible use on cruise missiles or as part of another robust penetrator. T he Raytheon Company successfully demonstrated a new two-phase bunker busting weapon in the New Mexico desert three weeks ago, company officials announced Friday at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando.

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