The present invention provides an unpowered low-cost "smart" micromunition
unit for a weapon system for defense against an asymmetric attack upon
ships and sea or land based facilities. A plurality of air dropped
micromunition units are each capable of detecting and tracking a
plurality of maneuvering targets and of establishing a fast acting local
area wireless communication network among themselves to create a
distributed database stored in each deployed micromunition unit for
sharing target and micromunition unit data. Each micromunition unit
autonomously applies stored algorithms to data from the distributed
database to select a single target for intercept and to follow an
intercept trajectory to the selected target. It is emphasized that this
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