TDW

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Field	Value
name	TDW Gesellschaft für verteidigungstechnische Wirksysteme mbH
type	Subsidiary
foundation	1994
location_city	Schrobenhausen
location_country	Germany
area_served	Worldwide
key_people	Ulrich Störchle
(Managing Director)
industry	Defence
products	Warheads, Fuzes, Distance Sensors
num_employees	150
parent	MBDA Deutschland GmbH (formerly LFK GmbH)
homepage
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TDW (Gesellschaft für verteidigungstechnische Wirksysteme mbH) is a European company that develops and manufactures warheads for guided weapons. The company was founded in 1994 and has 150 employees based in Schrobenhausen, Germany. TDW is a 100% subsidiary of MBDA Deutschland GmbH and part of the European guided weapon group MBDA.

History

The history of what is now TDW began in the 1960s at the site in Schrobenhausen where the company has been located ever since. The business started as part of Bölkow, later Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) before it became DASA. TDW as a separate legal entity was founded 1994 as a spin-off of DASA, which continued to control the business as subsidiary. All missile activities of DASA and Dornier GmbH 1995 were consolidated into LFK-Lenkflugkörpersysteme GmbH which owned 100% of TDW. Together with LFK, TDW has been consolidated into EADS (now Airbus) which has sold LFK GmbH and its subsidiary TDW, to the European missile group MBDA in 2006. LFK GmbH has changed its company name to MBDA Deutschland GmbH in 2012.

Products

TDW has customers in France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, the UK, and the United States. The product portfolio of TDW encompasses all sorts of conventional warheads, blast/fragmentation and lethality-enhancers for air defence, penetrators for bunker-busting and anti-ship application, shaped charges to defeat tanks and multi-effect warheads to defeat several target categories. In 2013 a newly developed Mk82 warhead was demonstrated with a novel scalable technology that is able to adjust the explosive effect to a level appropriate to the military target, minimizing collateral damage. The Programmable Intelligent Multi Purpose Fuze (PIMPF) is a void sensing and layer counting fuze in service with the warheads of NSM and Taurus.

TDW products can be found in:

Anti-tank

• MILAN 1, MILAN 2, MILAN 2T, MILAN 3
• HOT, HOT-2, HOT-3
• PARS 3 LR (formerly TRIGAT LR)
• Brimstone 2

Anti-air

• ALARM
• Roland
• Sidewinder / RAM
• PAC-3 (lethality enhancer)
• ASRAAM
• ESSM
• Mistral
• METEOR
• CAMM (missile family)

Anti-ship

• AS.34 Kormoran, Kormoran-2
• NSM
• RBS15 Mk3

Tandem penetrators

• STABO runway cratering submunition for MW-1
• MEPHISTO for the Taurus KEPD 350

Torpedoes

• Sting Ray Mod 1
• Spearfish Upgrade

Fuzes

• PIMPF

References

References

1. "Ulrich Störchle Archives".
2. "TDW linkedin page – Just another WordPress site".
3. "TDW GMBH".
4. "TDW // AN MBDA COMPANY – Just another WordPress site".
5. [http://www.airbus-group.com/dms/airbusgroup/int/en/investor-relations/documents/2007/annual_report07_financial_statements_and_corporate_governance_en/Financial%20Statements%20and%20Corporate%20Governance.pdf 2007 Financial statement]Airbus Group {{Webarchive. link. (4 March 2016)
6. (27 August 2013). "MBDA Tests 'Scalable Warhead' Technology".
7. "Archived copy".
8. "TRIGAT Long Range Warhead Passes Qualification Tests".
9. "MBDA Begins Series Production Of Brimstone 2 Missile | AIN".
10. "Penetrating effector systems".
11. "Janes {{!".
12. "Janes {{!".

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