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Isn't this the technology we used while developing the "bunker buster" bombs in GF1?

Seems like I remember reading that we took 105 howitzer barrels and filled the ends with concrete followed by high explosives with a time delay fuse. Suckers would punch deep through the rock before detonating.

Is my recollection correct?

No, all we are doing here is looking at a target that we don't want blown to bits, or has been positioned next to a children's hospital we don't want blown to bits.

We take either the Laser Guidance or GPS package and slap it on a heavy inert bomb body. Those inert bomb bodies would normally be dropped on training missions.

Normally the guidance kits are strapped onto live MK-82, 83, and 84 bodies except the penetrators which have special bomb bodies.

Seems like I remember reading that we took 105 howitzer barrels and filled the ends with concrete followed by high explosives with a time delay fuse.

I don't recall the use of any concrete, but otherwise you are correct. I used to know some of the guys who developed the thing for TI. They actually only did the guidance kit, but had to simulate the whole thing to check that the control gains from a standard bomb would work, or if they needed to tweak the gains some. The rest of the kit, except for that artillery barrel filled with explosives, was the then in production version of Paveway. I can't recall if they used the gains from the 1000 or 2000 pound version. It was developed in a just few months from contract award to first drop, which hit the desired target.