What does AUP stand for?

Advanced Unitary Penetrator (US DoD munition)

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Officials gave similar status reports on other weapons designed with Iraq in mind: the Advanced Unitary Penetrator, a 2,000-pound bunker-penetrating bomb; the Joint Programmable Fuse, which a pilot can reprogram for a different target in-flight; and the Smart Hard-Target Fused, which can be programmed to detonate a bomb after it has penetrated a bunker roof and gone through a preset number of floors.

WEAPONS LAG FOR IRAQ STRIKE PENTAGON RUSHING DEVELOPMENT OF NEW, ...

The next major advance beyond the BLU-113 series is the 874 kg BLU-116/B or Lockheed Martin Advanced Unitary Penetrator (AUP).

Air-to-ground weapons

The latest major advance in large US penetration bombs is Lockheed Martin's 874 kg Advanced Unitary Penetrator (AUP) or BLU-116/B, developed under a 1995 contract to defeat extremely hard multi-layer underground facilities.

Hard nut crackers: the Pentagon's top priority in weapon developments ...