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M93 Hornet wide area munition

Country of Origin: USA

The M93 Hornet (hand emplaced-wide area munition (HE-WAM) is a self-contained 35-lb (16-kg) weapon system designed to detect, identify, track, engage and defeat armored vehicles within its 328-ft (100-m) detection radius. It can be easily carried and set up by a single soldier.

Once set up, the M93 HE-WAM is manually armed (an improved version can be remotely armed). After arming, the M93 enters a power-cycling standby mode to conserve energy until its seismic sensors detect...

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