Next Generation Multiple Warhead System

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| origin = UK & France

| type = Bunker buster

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The Next Generation Multiple Warhead System, or NGMWS, is a weapon developed by MBDA to defeat hard and deeply buried targets (hence an alternative name, HARDBUT).{{cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/europes-hardbut-missile-is-your-ultimate-penetrator/

|accessdate=2010-10-12

|title=Europe’s HARDBUT Missile Is Your Ultimate Penetrator

|date=2010-10-12

|first=Spencer

|last=Ackerman

}}{{cite web|url=http://www.defpro.com/news/details/18657/

|accessdate=2010-10-12

|title=MBDA Conducts Successful Demonstrations of New Bunker Buster Warhead

}}

The system includes a precursor charge and a follow-through bomb. Development was funded by the British and French ministries of defence.{{cite web

|url = http://www.mbda-systems.com/mbda/site/ref/scripts/newsFO_complet.php?lang=EN&news_id=324

|accessdate = 2010-10-12

|title = MBDA Conducts Successful Demonstrations of New Bunker Buster Warhead

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20101019181430/http://www.mbda-systems.com/mbda/site/ref/scripts/newsFO_complet.php?lang=EN&news_id=324

|archivedate = 2010-10-19

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