The destruction of the airport is the routine operation of the military struggle, which is related to the struggle for air supremacy, but the damage effect of ordinary aerial bombs on the runway is not good, and the craters are easily filled temporarily, for which countries have developed special anti-runway **, France's BAP-100 was developed in the mid-70s of the last century, and the anti-runway cluster bomb was put into service in the early 80s.
The BAP-100 was developed for the French Air Force, such as the Puma attack aircraft and the Mirage fighter, and it was designed to create favorable opportunities for military operations by disabling airfields for a long time with an effective attack, and it proved to be very suitable for this task.
The size of a single BAP-100 is not large, it is 178 meters, diameter 10 cm, total weight 325 kg, the warhead part weighs 20 kg, the inner filling 35 kg of ** object, it needs to be released by the fighter at low altitude and low speed, and the parachute is opened to slow down after the ammunition is released, the purpose of this is to leave more time for the fighter to leave and avoid being injured by **, but the low-speed ammunition is not conducive to runway damage, BAP-100 is equipped with rocket thrusters, which can then accelerate the ammunition to 260 meters in seconds.
The fighter uses an external way to carry BAP-100, a group of pylons can carry a total of 9 ammunition, for example, the Jaguar Attack can carry 2 sets of pylons in series in the belly, but this external ammunition rack does not have a fairing, and the flight resistance is greater than that of ordinary aerial bombs or ** pods. Ammunition will drill into the runway at a depth of about 40 centimeters, causing craters with a diameter of about 4 meters and a depth of about 1 meter, which is very serious damage to the runway and difficult to repair temporarily, 18 bombs can damage about 400 square meters of ground, enough to paralyze a runway, and it will use different fuses, in addition to the instant explosion of ammunition, it can also be set up after a maximum of several hours **, interfering with the opponent's repair work.
The French side said that the BAP-100 can also be used to bomb railways, convoys, ammunition depots, warehouses and other targets, but at this time the ammunition needs to be modified, cancel its rocket propulsion, fill more explosives to increase the destructive power of the ammunition, and the BAP-100 in this mode will weigh 35 kilograms.
The French Air Force first used the BAP-100 in combat in February 1986, when they attacked an air base in Chad with Puma attack aircraft and successfully sabotaged the latter. France has also used this kind of ammunition to the outside world, and India has spent a lot of money to introduce it and use the MiG-23 to mount it, but this way of mounting under the wing seems to be somewhat incongruous.