BROACH warhead explained

The Bomb Royal Ordnance Augmented Charge (BROACH) is a multi-stage warhead developed by BAE Systems Global Combat Systems Munitions, Thales Missile Electronics and QinetiQ.^[1] ^[2]

Development of BROACH began in 1991 when Team BROACH consisted of British Aerospace Royal Ordnance Defence, Thomson-Thorn Missile Electronics and the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA). The two stage warhead is made up from an initial shaped charge, which cuts a passage through armour, concrete, earth, etc., allowing a larger following warhead to penetrate inside the target. The weapon is designed to allow a cruise missile to achieve the degree of hard-target penetration formerly only possible by the use of laser-guided gravity bombs.

Applications

Storm Shadow/SCALP EG
AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon unitary variant (JSOW-C)^[3]
BROACH was evaluated as a possible warhead for the AGM-86 ALCM cruise missile but was ultimately not selected.^[4]

Web site: BAE Systems Land Systems Munitions . the Manufacturer.com . 2010-02-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110610230958/http://www.themanufacturer.com/uk/profile/6848/BAE_Systems_Land_Systems_Munitions?PHPSESSID=c88 . 10 June 2011 .
Web site: Munitions products. BAE Systems. 31 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170831174617/http://www.baesystems.com/en/product/munition-products. 31 August 2017. dead.
BAE Systems JSOW Unitary BROACH program enters operational test . BAE Systems plc . 5 January 2004 . 13 January 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060316171512/http://www.na.baesystems.com/releasesDetail.cfm?a=127 . 16 March 2006 . dead .
Web site: Boeing Selects Lockheed Martin to Provide CALCM Hard-Target Warhead . 15 April 2018 . Boeing . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20001209180000/http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/1999/news_release_991202o.htm . 9 December 2000 .