Mac Jee Defesa offers four types of general-purpose bombs in the BGB family. Above is the 2,000 lb BGB 84. (Victor Barreira)
Brazilian privately owned ammunition specialist Mac Jee Defesa will close 2024 having exported approximately 35,000 general-purpose bombs to about eight countries.
Mac Jee Defesa's director for Business Development Mathieu Izquierdo recently told Janes that it had delivered 250 lb BGB 81, 500 lb BGB 82, 1,000 lb BGB 83, and 2,000 lb BGB 84 bombs, based on the US MK family, to countries in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
The exports principally comprised BGB 82 and BGB 84 bombs, Izquierdo said. Fewer quantities of BGB 81 and BGB 83 bombs were delivered, he added.
Mac Jee Defesa has also secured contracts to ship approximately 35,000 general-purpose bombs in 2025. These will include its version of the 2,000 lb BLU-109 hardened bunker buster penetration bomb. The local version of the BLU-109 is produced as an International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)-free weapon, the company said.
Izquierdo noted that Mac Jee Defesa manufactures around 3,000 BGB-series bombs monthly. The company controls all phases of manufacturing the weapons, including forging, machining, producing components, welding, and controlling and filling explosives, the company said. The bomb bodies are manufactured through forged and pre-fragmented processes. The low-drag tails are manufactured with high-quality steel.
The BGB-series bombs can be filled with a range of energetic materials such as trinitrotoluene (TNT), tritonal (a mixture of 80% TNT and 20% aluminium powder), Composition B (Comp B), and thermobaric.
The BGBs can also be fitted with NATO-standard electronic and mechanical fuzes, which are manufactured by Mac Jee Defesa as ITAR-free components.
For more information, please seeBLU-109/B penetrator .
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