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TDW (Gesellschaft für verteidigungstechnische Wirksysteme mbH) is a European company that develops and manufactures warheads for guided weapons.[3] The company was founded in 1994 and has 130 employees based in Schrobenhausen, Germany. TDW is a 100% subsidiary of MBDA Deutschland GmbH[2] and part of the European guided weapon group MBDA.
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Defence |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Ulrich Störchle (Managing Director)[1] |
| Products | Warheads, Fuzes, Distance Sensors |
Number of employees | 130[2] |
| Parent | MBDA Deutschland GmbH (formerly LFK GmbH) |
| Website | tdw-warhead-systems |
History
editThe history of what is now TDW began in the 1960s at the site in Schrobenhausen where the company has been located ever since. The business started as part of Bölkow, later Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) before it became DASA. TDW as a separate legal entity was founded 1994 as a spin-off of DASA, which continued to control the business as subsidiary. All missile activities of DASA and Dornier GmbH 1995 were consolidated into LFK-Lenkflugkörpersysteme GmbH which owned 100% of TDW. Together with LFK, TDW has been consolidated into EADS (now Airbus) which has sold LFK GmbH and its subsidiary TDW, to the European missile group MBDA in 2006.[4] LFK GmbH has changed its company name to MBDA Deutschland GmbH in 2012.
Products
editTDW has customers in France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, the UK, and the United States. The product portfolio of TDW encompasses all sorts of conventional warheads, blast/fragmentation and lethality-enhancers for air defence, penetrators for bunker-busting and anti-ship application, shaped charges to defeat tanks and multi-effect warheads to defeat several target categories. In 2013 a newly developed Mk82 warhead was demonstrated with a novel scalable technology that is able to adjust the explosive effect to a level appropriate to the military target, minimizing collateral damage.[5] The Programmable Intelligent Multi Purpose Fuze (PIMPF) is a void sensing and layer counting fuze in service with the warheads of NSM and Taurus.[6]
TDW products can be found in:
Anti-tank
edit- MILAN 1, MILAN 2, MILAN 2T, MILAN 3
- HOT, HOT-2, HOT-3
- PARS 3 LR (formerly TRIGAT LR)[7]
- Brimstone 2[8]
Anti-air
edit- ALARM
- Roland
- Sidewinder / RAM
- PAC-3 (lethality enhancer)
- ASRAAM
- ESSM
- Mistral
- METEOR
- CAMM (missile family)
Anti-ship
editTandem penetrators
edit- STABO runway cratering submunition for MW-1[9]
- MEPHISTO for the Taurus KEPD 350[9]
Torpedoes
editFuzes
edit- PIMPF[9]
References
edit- ^ "Ulrich Störchle Archives".
- ^ a b "TDW // AN MBDA COMPANY – Just another WordPress site".
- ^ "TDW GMBH".
- ^ 2007 Financial statement Airbus Group [dead link]
- ^ "MBDA Tests 'Scalable Warhead' Technology". 27 August 2013.
- ^ http://www.nafomag.com/2013/08/poland-to-strengthen-its-littoral.html [dead link]
- ^ "TRIGAT Long Range Warhead Passes Qualification Tests".
- ^ "MBDA Begins Series Production Of Brimstone 2 Missile | AIN". Aviation International News. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Penetrating effector systems" (PDF). dtic.mil. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 October 2007.
- ^ "Janes | Latest defence and security news".
- ^ "Janes | Latest defence and security news".