USA - LAD

LAD (Low Altitude Dispenser)

Air-controlled service puma designed to bombardment from small heights. Developed was a company of Brunswick Corporation from roughly the second half of the seventies of the 20. century.

In front of the cougars was the guidance system of the bombs. At her follow up modularly fashioned martial part with the possibility to carry different types of submunitions. By the implementation with side raketnicemi was the middle part of the fuselage filled up with 96 pieces of anti-tank submunitions KB-44. In the account further to account for type BLU-97/B CEM, possibly incendiary submunitions or anti-tank mines. Submunitions could be vystřelována pyrotechnicky or compressed air. Further implementation of the central part of the envisaged raketnicemi vertical by throwing submunitions. It is further anticipated use of the 98 pieces of parachute braked protipancéřových bombs, protibetonové submunitions CADM to the destruction of the VPD enemy airports, submunitions BLU-106/B BKEP, or 10 cartridges SFW (each with 4 pieces of submunitions SKEET). The weight of the submunitions could be up to 635 kg. In the back of the LAD were the energy source, on-board computer, control section with four cross-wing and an auxiliary rocket engine on the TPH.

The Data needed to guide bombs to a target (the speed and height of flight, location of the aircraft and the target), it was possible to insert into the onboard computer of the aircraft-carrier and the bombs before take-off to combat for years. If this would not have been possible, for should the necessary data itself, the crew of the aircraft.

The range of heights shozu LAD could move in a range of heights from 30 to 12 000 metres at speeds of 550 to 1 200 km/h (according to some sources, up to 1 297 km/h). In shozu at altitudes of 30 to 100 metres above the terrain with a range of LAD to make up to 13 km. Chute at altitudes above 200 meters range increased to about 24 km. Puma was able to make a side and elevation maneuver and hit a target 4.5 km away from the original track of the aircraft during shozu.

The test LAD should be started in the year 1979. Program LAD was canceled, probably to the end of the eighties 20. century.



Technical-tactical data
Maximum weight: 1 089 kg

Dimensions:
- wingspan: 1.47 m
- length: 4,17 m
- width of middle part: 0,58 m


Resources
1) Burke, To The.: Air box bombs, air Force, and NAD, ?/1983
2) Novotny, P.: RTD and the armed forces of the NATO 4, air Force, and NAD, ?/1987
3) the Archive of the author.