The American army tests a new anti

At the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, the US military recently conducted tests on a new warhead named BRAKER (which stands for “Bunker Rupture and Kinetic Explosive Round”). As reported by Forbes on April 24, this projectile was designed to be integrated with small attack drones, marking a departure from traditional heavy-caliber bombs dropped from aircraft.

Designed to destroy heavy fortifications and buried targets, this innovation is part of the US’s transformation plan to adapt their forces to modern conflicts. The warhead, partially made from 3D-printed components, was developed in record time: conceptualized in early March, it was successfully tested a few weeks later. A total of 12 rounds were produced, with one used for an official demonstration. The project is overseen by the US Army’s executive program dedicated to ammunition and energetics, based in Picatinny, New Jersey.

A rapid and scalable implementation “Our team at Picatinny went from concept to real firing in two weeks,” noted Colonel Vincent Morris in a statement released on April 22. He also emphasized that “BRAKER demonstrates our ability to rapidly develop and safely deploy devastating effects through small unmanned aircraft systems.” In addition to the warhead itself, the teams designed a universal mounting system called the Picatinny Common Lethality Integration Kit (CLIK). Inspired by standard rails used for rifles, this device allows for different types of payloads to be adapted onto drones, expanding the operational uses of these devices.