Sure, when they get there, they can arm the bomb, ring the doorbell, and run like the dickens.
Why not put wings and a tail on the bomb and tow it to the target?
I say we sell Israel a couple of B-2 Stealth’s and MOP’s and let them do the dirty work.
Sure, when they get there, they can arm the bomb, ring the doorbell, and run like the dickens.
“Why not put wings and a tail on the bomb and tow it to the target?”
Or maybe they’ve built a huge drone.
Israel is, by far, the leader in drones. The Predator (just for example) was an Israeli design, finalized by an Israeli who moved to the USA.
Push it out of the back of an Israeli C130J at 20,000 feet.
It has the lift capability.
I’m sure Eglin has a kit for it.
As a (no longer active) glider pilot, I have a lot of experience with aerial towing. Anything that you want to tow by aircraft that has its own wings and aerodynamic surfaces requires either a pilot on board (probably not a good idea in this scenario) or some type of autopilot to keep it under control.
To use sailplanes as an example, from the ground it might look like the glider pilot has nothing to do but fold his arms and let the towplane drag him around the sky, but that’s not accurate at all. The sailplane pilot is very busy constantly adjusting pitch and airspeed to make sure that slack doesn’t develop in the towline, as well as carefully determining when to begin a turn after the towplane does so, to prevent tracking outside or inside of the towplane’s turn and thereby initiating an aerial version of “crack the whip.” Flying the tow is the single most difficult thing a new sailplane pilot learns to do. And I haven’t even gone into how the two aircraft become airborne at different points in the takeoff run.
Unless some very advanced automation was developed, I don’t think it would be possible to just tow any large bomb.