TAURUS KEPD 350 Missile

Cruise Missile – Seeker Head Electronic Components

The modular stand-off missile Taurus KEPD350 is designed to be a surgical strike weapon for Tornadoes and future Eurofighters.

The system features modular sections of the airframe configured individually for each mission and has a TriTec navigation system comprising GPS-aided inertial guidance, terrain-following radar and IR-image based waypoint navigation.

The propulsion is provided by a high performance turbo engine.

The mission of Taurus is programmed automatically on a separate mission planning system using data of existing air defence threats.

KEPD is approaching targets at a distance up to 350 km with a speed above Mach .8 at very low flight altitudes.

The KEPD 350 Power Converter is a customer specified multi output DC/DC-Converter with five output voltages to provide power for the KEPD 350 seeker electronic.

APCON has developed and manufactured 3 different units, the PSU power supply, SIP signal processing unit and SAD Sensor And Drive Actuator Unit.

• Series production over 5 years – Total: 2.010 Units
• IR–Seeker Head Electronic (670 pcs)
• PSU Power Supply (670 pcs)
• SAD Sensor and Drive Actuater Drive Unit (670 pcs)

Features

• The power is provided by the missile’s DC-grid.
• The operating voltage is 28V.
• Internal EMI-Filters reduce the conducted emission (CE)
• controlled conducted susceptibility (CS) acc. to MIL-STD 462.
• Fixed frequency operation
• Remote sensing
• Overload/short circuit protection
• Ultra low dropout regulator
• Over-voltage protection
• Under/over-voltage control logic Over-temperature protection
• operating over full military temperature range.
• high density design has very small dimensions.