“Wondering if...” Well your guess is better than mine! 😀
I gathered a little info to support our ‘musings’:
-Daisy Cutter: daisy cutter is a type of fuse designed to detonate an aerial bomb. A bomb with a daisy-cutter fuse will detonate before it has a chance to penetrate the ground, allowing its energy to spread over a larger area. For this reason daisy-cutter fuses are often used to clear foliage and vegetation, such as for the purpose of creating landing zones for helicopters.
-BLU 116 is a United States Air Force bomb, designed as an enhanced bunker buster penetration weapon, designed to penetrate deep into rock or concrete and destroy hard targets.
-JDAM [The Joint Direct Attack Munition] is a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs, or “dumb bombs”, into all-weather precision-guided munitions. The JDAM is not a stand-alone weapon; rather it is a “bolt-on” guidance package that converts unguided gravity bombs into precision-guided munitions (PGMs).
-Paveway III is a laser guided free-fall bomb for use against surface targets from medium standoff range.The third-generation laser guided seeker/tail kit package enables greater precision over Paveway II and can be dropped from low, medium, or high altitude and is effective against a broad range of high-value targets.
Did it go through UPT [Urban Blast Tool] The Urban Blast Tool (UBT) quantifies the effects of blast in urban environments, including the influence of buildings on blast pressures propagating from explosions located in urban settings. [https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/urban-blast-tool-ubt-opening-thunder-closing-whimper]
or RTU
-The actual RTU [Remote Terminal Unit] device collects data from data acquisition equipment and sends them to the main system over a wired or wireless network.
or RTU [Replacement Training Unit] required to have, to remain proficient?
[This site more specific answer for our consideration:
https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/af_a3/publication/afman11-2c-17v1/afman11-2c-17v1.pdf]
UPT is Undergraduate Pilot Training. Sort of Basic Flight School for the U.S. Air Force. It lasts about a year. Upon graduation the "Pilots" earn their wings.
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RTU is Replacement Training Unit where USAF pilots go to get trained on fighter aircraft, such as F-22, F-35, F-16, & F-15.
Also, please accept my personal thanks for all you do.
It’s UPT, not UBT. My gut feeling tells me no aviation bomb is EVER going through UPT. 😀 My son went through it. The next phase was RTU, though my son told me they changed the name, but they still do the same thing. My son knew what he would be flying, before he went to OTS at Maxwell. His RTU (or whatever they call it) was at Holloman. When these guys finish UPT, the Air Force doesn’t point them to their assigned Aircraft, and say, go fly it. They work them into it. After Holloman, he got about 4 more months of flight training at Indian Springs. He makes Captain next month.