The AV-TM 300, also called the MTC-300 or nicknamed Matador, is a Brazilian cruise missile developed by Avibras for the Astros II rocket artillery system, intended as a lower cost alternative to the American BGM-109 Tomahawk. Development began with an initial version in 1999 and formally continued from September 2001, with the missile still in a testing and certification phase as of 2026 rather than fully operational. It is guided by a central computer combining a ring laser gyroscope with an active GPS navigation device, weighs about 1,140 kilograms, is 5,400 millimeters long, and can strike targets between 30 and 300 kilometers away while carrying either a single warhead of 200 to 500 kilograms or a cluster munition payload of 64 submunitions. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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- Also in Business Atlas: Avibras, manufactured by there.
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1. Wikipedia: AV-TM 300
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