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The AASM (Armement Air-Sol Modulaire) Hammer is a family of weapons developed and produced by Sagem (Safran group) and stands for 'Highly Agile and Maneuverable Munition-Extended Range'. This new family of smart, precision-guided missiles is created by guidance and range augmentation kits adapted to conventional bombs.
The guidance kits are based on a flight control system including computer-controlled movable surfaces, plus inertial guidance unit and sensors. The AASM relies on Sagem's wide range of technological expertise, in particular inertial navigation, electronics, signal management and guidance optronics; inertial navigation unit is based on hemispheric resonator gyros (HRG) ; infrared imager without line- of-sight stabilisation, using associated algorithms; semi-active laser seeker, without line-of-sight stabilisation; hybrid inertial/GPS systems.
Three different guidance kits (inertial/ GPS, inertial/GPS/IR and inertial/GPS/ laser) are selected according to the mission and are in service in the...