据《航空周刊》1991年7月15日报道,美国陆军最近透露,一种称作BAT的自主制导武器将作为陆军的主要反装甲武器替代多管火箭发射系统末制导战斗部和红外末制导子母弹战斗部。 陆军已与诺斯罗普公司签署了一项价值3.44亿美元的合同以开始对该武器进行工程和制造研制。陆军在1992财年预算中已为这项计划申请L136亿美元。计划总费用为22亿多美元,要采购的数量目前依然保密。预计在90年代中晚期开始生产。 According to Aviation Week reports on July 15, 1991, the U.S. Army recently disclosed that an autonomous guided weapon called BAT would replace the Terminal Guided Warhead and the Infrared Terminal Guided Munition of the Multiple Rocket Launch System as the Army’s main anti-armor weapon Warhead. The Army has signed a $ 344 million contract with Northrop to begin the engineering and manufacturing of the weapon. The Army has applied for L136 billion for this project in its 1992 fiscal year budget. The total cost of the plan is more than 2.2 billion U.S. dollars, the quantity to be purchased is still confidential. It is expected to begin production in the late 1990s.