[CopperTop]

Dyslexics may get a chuckle outta this gizmo. d;^) New and improved?!?

SBD II? Hehehe. (Silent-But-Deadly fart for the uninitiated)

[Old Sarge]

World’s Most Sophisticated Bomb Ready for Production

Which Hollywood movie is it this time?

[Jack Hydrazine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhlqr9pYhig

[buwaya]

Thanks for the post.
This is an important weapon.
In a future war against a high tech opponent with advanced air defense this seems like it will be the most used munition.

[KC_Lion]

And it will be used to blow up a tent >:(

Pack a Bunch TNT inside a Barrel and Carpet Bomb the Area.

Cheapest War in the World.

[Delta 21]

I think we should expend a few more of these before we spend money on stuff we dont have yet. These work just fine.

[golux]

a bomb?

[PGR88]

U.S. Air Force assistant acquisition secretary Dr. William LaPlante said recently that the cost per round will be about $115,000

And we can put them on our $500 million airplanes, and eventually be able to afford about 5 of each.

The USA produced about 15,000 P-51's in WWII. At the time, it was cutting-edge technology and the best in the skys. Each copy cost $50,900. If you believe the US Bureau of Labor's inflation statistics, in today's dollars that is $650,000 per

[CodeJockey]

The F-15E Strike Eagle can carry up to 28 SDB II’s but the F-35B can only carry 4 in each internal weapons bay.

Doesn't the F-35 have two internal bays? If so that's 28 the Eagle can carry but the F-35 only a total of 8?

This cannot be right. Someone help me out here.

[lafroste]

targets at up to 40 nm range, from a subsonic launch at about 35,000 feet.

40 nanometers does not sound like much of a range.

[bert]

Unmentioned was the bomb’s ability to home on a cell phone signal and strike even after the call is terminated

[Stalwart]

Looks like a future drone payload to me.

[minnesota_bound]

Lightning II will not receive the Block 4 software required to drop the SDB II until 2022

This is 2015. Can’t they hire some apps programmer and knock this out in a weekend?
WW2 was 4 years for us.
How long does the Defense dept think the next war will be?

[alexander_busek]

[...] allows simultaneous attacks in adverse weather and against moving targets at up to 40 nm range [...]

Are they talking about nanometers - i.e., billionths of a meter (= 10 Å)?

Regards,

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

The next President will get use out of these in cleaning up Obama’s “Muzzies Gone Wild” 8 year Spring Break party mess.