The Bofors/SAABStrix is a Swedishguided projectile fired from a 120 mm mortar. Bofors is an iron works, cannon maker, and defence industry located in Karlskoga, Sweden. ... Saab (originally an acronym for Svenska Aeroplan AB, where AB stands for aktiebolaget (corporation)) was founded as a Swedish aircraft concern in 1937 in the city of Linköping, in Sweden. ... BOLT-117 laser guided bomb Precision-guided munitions (smart munitions or smart bombs) are self-guiding weapons intended to maximize damage to the target while minimizing collateral damage. Because the damage effects of an explosive weapon scale as a power law with distance, quite modest improvements in accuracy (and hence... US soldier firing an M224 60-mm mortar. ...
Strix is fired like a conventional mortar round. The round contains an infrared sensor which it uses to guide itself onto any tank or armoured fighting vehicle in the vicinity where it lands. Image of a small dog taken in mid-infrared (thermal) light (false color) Infrared (IR) radiation is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than visible light, but shorter than microwave radiation. ... An armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) is a military vehicle, equipped with protection against hostile attacks and often mounted weapons. ...
Strix has been in service with the Swedish and Swiss Armies since 1994. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
As well as being fired by conventional mortars, Strix can be fired by the Advanced Mortar System, an automatic dual 120 mm mortar mounted in a turret for fitting to armoured vehicles. For other uses, see Amos AMOS or Advanced MOrtar System is a 120 mm automatic twin barrelled (having two barrels), breech loaded mortar turret. ...
Mortars were once seen as the weapons of the small fry -- but recent developments have brought about improved mortars that can decimate an area of thousands of square meters in an instant -- at a fraction of the usual size and cost of traditional artillery.
A mortar, by simple definition, is a weapon consists of a tube into which a mortar shell is dropped.
While precision mortar munitions (at $10,000-$20,000 a piece) are more expensive than the mortarrounds typically fired, when a ground commander needs immediate precision ground support, they are priceless.
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